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Quotes by Jim Rohn - (126 quotes)

Jim Rohn - From the Achievement category:

The few who do are the enemy of the many who only watch. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Affirmation category:

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Anticipation category:

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Application category:

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Attitude category:

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Beginning category:

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Belief category:

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Books category:

The book you don't read won't help. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Books category:

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Books category:

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Change category:

I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Change category:

If you don't like where you are, change it! You're not a tree. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Change category:

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Change category:

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Character category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Children category:

Kids are curious. Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Choices category:

We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Choices category:

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Choices category:

Either you run the day or the day runs you. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Choices category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Clubs category:

Don't join an easy crowd. You won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Commerce category:

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Commerce category:

If you make a sale, you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Commerce category:

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Commerce category:

We get paid for bringing value to the market place. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Communication category:

The goal of effective communication should be for the listener to say, 'Me, too!' - versus 'So what?' (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Communication category:

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Complaining category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Complaining category:

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Complaining category:

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Concentration category:

The greatest definition for concentration I ever heard is, 'Wherever you are, be there!' (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Danger category:

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.' (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Desire category:

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Desire category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Desire category:

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Destiny category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Determination category:

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Difficulty category:

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Discipline category:

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Education category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Education category:

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Effort category:

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Emotion category:

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Experience category:

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Failure category:

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Freedom category:

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Friendship category:

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Friendship category:

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.' (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Future category:

My father taught me always to do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Future category:

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Generosity category:

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Generosity category:

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Goals category:

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Goals category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Goals category:

We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Goals category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Gratitude category:

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens up the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Greatness category:

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Growth category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Happiness category:

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Happiness category:

Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Health category:

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Humility category:

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Ideas category:

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Imagination category:

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Importance category:

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Impotence category:

Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say instead, 'If I can, I will.' (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Insecurity category:

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Journey category:

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Joy category:

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Knowledge category:

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Leadership category:

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Life category:

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Miracles category:

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Miracles category:

If you just communicate you can get by. But if you skillfully communicate, you can work miracles. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Moderation category:

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Money category:

Money is usually attracted, not pursued. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Motivation category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Opportunity category:

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Opposites category:

Success lies in the opposite direction of the natural flow. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Optimism category:

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and the weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Performance category:

At the end of each day you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Philosophy category:

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current direction, we have to change our philosophy not our circumstances. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Philosophy category:

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Planning category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Power category:

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Practice category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Preparation category:

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... Good communication starts with good preparation. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Preparation category:

Part of success is preparation on purpose. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Problems category:

Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Problems category:

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? (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Procrastination category:

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Production category:

The soil says, 'Don't bring me your need. Bring me your seed.' (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Profession category:

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to an hour. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Profession category:

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you, let it make something of you. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Progress category:

Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chairs so small. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Progress category:

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Prosperity category:

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Prosperity category:

The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what's left; the poor spend their money and invest what's left. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Questions category:

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Questions category:

Reasons come first. Answers come second. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Repose category:

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Responsibility category:

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. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Rewards category:

If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Risk category:

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Risk category:

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Sadness category:

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Searching category:

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely doesn't a good idea interrupt you. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Silence category:

The more you know the less you need to say. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Simplicity category:

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Skill category:

Learn to hide your need and show your skill. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Success category:

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Success category:

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Success category:

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Suffering category:

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Time category:

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Time category:

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Time category:

We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Tyranny category:

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Words category:

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Work category:

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Work category:

Labor gives birth to ideas. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Work category:

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Worth category:

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Writing category:

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. (Jim Rohn)

Jim Rohn - From the Writing category:

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. (Jim Rohn)