Jim Rohn Quotes

"Labor gives birth to ideas."

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

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

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

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

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

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

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."

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

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

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

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

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence."

"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."

"In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country."

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com