Jimmy Chin Quotes

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life's purpose. Go do it.

You just have to make sure you keep living your life, challenging yourself, putting yourself in unusual experiences, thinking about what you're interested in doing, and going there.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.