Jim Rohn Quotes

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

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 soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery."

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

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

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

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

People would do better, if they knew better.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

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.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause

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.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.