Jim Rohn Quotes

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

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.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars

What you become directly influences what you get.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

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

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

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

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

The best motivation is self-motivation.

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

Ideas are information taking shape.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into the future of their dreams. Let it be you.

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.

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

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.

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.