Quotes by Jim Rohn

• Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
• Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
• Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
• A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
• Either you run the day or the day runs you.
• Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
• Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
• Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
• 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.
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
• 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.
• Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
• The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
• Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
• For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
• 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.
• Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
• 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.
• 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.
• The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
• The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
• 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.
• If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
• Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
• Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
• Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
• Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
• Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
• 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.
• 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.
• Labor gives birth to ideas.
• It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
• 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.
• 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 are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
• 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.
• Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
• Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
• 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.
• 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.
• Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
• The book you don't read won't help.
• The more you know the less you need to say.
• Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
• 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.
• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
• Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
• Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
• When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
• The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
• You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
• 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.
• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
• 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.
• There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
• Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
• 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?
• We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
• 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.
• Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
• The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy
• If you're not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
• The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
• If you're not willing to risk the unusual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary.
• Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going.
• Success is not something you chase, but something you attract by the person you become.
• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
• Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
• If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
• Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
• Success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become.
• Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it's something you design for the present
• Success is neither magical nor mysterious; it's the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
• Success is the sum of small efforts repeated constantly.
• The biggest reward in life is not what you get, but what you become.
• There is no substitute for hard work. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
• If you don't like where you are, then MOVE! You are not a tree.
• Become the person who would attract the results you seek.
• Do what you love, and you'll never have a problem with Monday.
• If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree.
• If you don't like where you are, move; you are not a tree.
• If you don't like where you are, move. You are, not a tree.
• Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted!
• Sacrifice is giving up something good so that you can have something great.
• Success isn't just what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do in theirs.
• Success may not duplicate itself, but failure certainly does—feel free to share!