Famous Quotes

Quotes by Jim Rohn

• 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.
• Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
• 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.
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
• 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.
• Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
• Either you run the day or the day runs you.
• Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
• Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
• Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.
• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
• Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
• Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
• Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
• Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
• Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
• Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
• Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
• 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.
• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
• Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
• 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.
• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
• 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.
• Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.