Jayisms

For anything in your life to change for the better, you first must change for the better.

If you don’t have dreams of your own, you’ll live every day helping others achieve theirs.

The key to workplace success: spend more time making a difference than you do making a living.

Your legacy will either be a roadmap for others to follow or a warning for others to avoid.

You have one of two choices: “discipline” that leads to success or “neglect” that leads to regret.

Wisdom univested in labor is wasted (action is the miracle piece to life).

The greatest source of happiness (no matter what) comes from an attitude of gratitude.

In a world where so many have so little, take time each day to be grateful you have so much.

The difference between what you want and what you have, is what you do.

Your comfort zone is the danger zone in disguise.

Invest your life in things that will outlast it.

Ideas are free. Implementation of ideas is priceless.

If you don’t plant in the spring, you’ll have to beg in the fall.

There is no cure for a lack of ambition.

Character is defined in moments of adversity.

It’s not what you say, it’s what others hear.

I believe there is a place for mediocrity… last place.

Death is not the greatest fear in life. The greatest fear is what dies inside us while we live.

Life is like a mountain range. There’s plenty of room at the top; it’s the bottom that’s crowded.

The best advice I ever got was on an old bottle of Coca Cola: “No deposit, no return.”

Achievement without fulfillment is squandered.

If you don’t know what you want, you’ll have to settle for what you get.

Do what you cannot do – and soon you’ll be doing it.

Success is doing what others aren’t willing to do and hanging in there long after they’ve let go.

Your thoughts are your blueprints for your future.

The best job security is always giving more in value than you are paid for.

Indecision is the thief of opportunity and achievement.

The Law of Ignoring says whatever you ignore will get worse in time; what you give attention, will flourish.

Make rest a necessity not an objective; sleep less and dream more.

Be happy with what you have in pursuit of what you want.