Jim Rohn Quotes

The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

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.

The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

Don't look for things to be easier, look for you to be better

When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition ... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

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

Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

wages are good,...Profits are better.

What we have been is an established and unchangeable
fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless
opportunity.

Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.

The fact is that living the life of your dreams is possible. People prove that every day. Someone somewhere is going to get rich, get healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be you

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure ... get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

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

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

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.

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

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

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

the man who has a favorite restaurant but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! One

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

If you want to have more, you have to become more.
For things to change, you have to change.
For things to get better, you have to become better.
If you improve, everything will improve for you.
If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.

What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

Things don't change, people change.

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that's to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.

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

Take advice, but don't take orders.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that's where the fortune is.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

You can help a thousand ... but you can't carry three on your back!

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

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

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?

Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

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

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

To have more, we must first become more.

Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your health. Life without balance can cost you your spirituality. Life without balance can cost you your wealth and your happiness. So find things to motivate you from all areas of life. Your success depends on it.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

Don't wish easier, wish you were better. When you become better it will naturally become easier.

The reason most people don't accomplish much is because they don't want much.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

If you're going to affirm something, affirm the truth. Then go do something about it.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

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.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

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.

Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

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

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

Success is not a stereotype. Success is not a Ferrari. Success is not an automobile. It's not a house. It's not a place. It's not money in the bank. It's not a million dollars. That's not success. Success is the continual unfolding of the design of your own life and pulling it off. That's what success is.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential ... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

You must change your approach in order to change your results.

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.

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.

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.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

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.

Once you set goals that really matter to you, you are no longer the same person. Real goals will affect almost everything you do all day long. And they will be with you wherever you go. Your handshake, your manner of dressing, the tone of your voice, the way you feel - all will change once you have goals. That's because when your goals matter, everything you do becomes related to their accomplishment.

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.