Jim Rohn Quotes
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Learn to express, not impress.
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
The book you don't read won't help.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
Some people are disturbed by those tough days because all they have is the days. They haven't designed or described or defined the future.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
For every promise, there is a price to pay.
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
I now have one of the better libraries. I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
Don’t blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
When somebody shares, everybody wins.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Learn to say NO to the good, so you can say YES to the great.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
The more you know the less you need to say.
Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
One discipline always leads to another discipline.
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
The more you care, the stronger you can be.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
How long should you try? Until.
The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
