Jim Rohn Quotes

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.'

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

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.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.

A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

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.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Activity leads to productivity!

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

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.

If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The key to turning dreams into reality is action.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.