Jim Rohn Quotes

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

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.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

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

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

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.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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

How long should you try? Until.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

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.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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.

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?

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The book you don't read won't help.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

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.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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.

If you want to have more, you have to become more!

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

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.

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

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

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.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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.