Jim Rohn Quotes:

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

Topics: Unhappiness, Source, Miserable People, Unhappy People

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will."

Topics: Attitude

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.

Topics: Relationship, Impact, Long, Influencing People

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

Topics: Negative, Wells, Life Learning, You Live And You Learn

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Topics: Jobs, Hard Work, Fortune, Continuous Improvement, Self Empowerment

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

Topics: Inspirational, Happiness, Smart, Sometimes All You Need, Inner Peace And Happiness

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Topics: Spiritual, Jobs, Work

For things to change, you have to change.

source: - FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 04, 2015

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Financial Success

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Topics: Decision, Progress, Making Decisions, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

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

source: - FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Chances In Life

The more you know the less you need to say.

Topics: Life, Greatness, Silence, Lack Of Empathy, Aboriginal

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

Topics: Play, Two

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement, Unsuccessful, Journey To Success

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

Topics: Inspiring, Success, Life And Love, Spiritual Disciplines, Monday Morning Motivational

Pity 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!

Topics: Men, Mind, Favorite Places

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Learning, Never Stop Learning, Continuous Learning

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

Topics: Inspirational, Time, Money

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

Topics: Needs, Sometimes, Inaccessible, Accessibility

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

Topics: Inspirational, Business, Investment, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspiring Customer Service

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

Topics: Success, Education, Money, Makin Money, Good Money

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Topics: Riches, Wealth, Fingers, Best Laid Plans, Business Plan

Learn to express, not impress.

Topics: Impress

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

Topics: Differences, Half, Dozen

I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

source: - FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 06, 2011

Topics: Giving Up, Philosophy, Thinking

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

Topics: Share, Willing

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Topics: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Steps To Success, Self Discipline

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Topics: Waiting, Today, Tomorrow

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

Topics: Goal, Self Help, Reason, Achieving Your Goals, Goals And Life

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Topics: Motivational, Sad, Father, Sad Man

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

Topics: Reflection, Growth, Personal Growth, Interiors, Exterior

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

Topics: Leadership, People, Leader, Empowering Others, Encouragers

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Change, Personal Change, Success And Life

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Topics: Change

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Topics: Inspirational, Greed, Killers

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

Topics: Helping Others, Generosity, Giving

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Topics: Leadership, Fall, Ideas

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Insperational

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

Topics: Reality, Difficulty, Ability, Keep The Faith, Ability To See

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.

Topics: Support, Mind, Working Together, Mind And Body, Health And Fitness

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Topics: Family, Garden, Imagination, Happy Family, Family Time

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Healthy Living, Healthy Habits

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

Topics: Attitude, Association, Influence

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

Topics: Style, Able, Way, Quickness, Get Rich Quick

What you become directly influences what you get.

Topics: Influence

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

Topics: Philosophy, Keys, Financial

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.

Topics: Encouragement, Inspiration, Learning, Spiritual Health, Learning Knowledge

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Unforgettable, Money Motivation

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.

Topics: Life, Positive, Hurt, Small Things In Life, Strong Personality

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.

Topics: Dream, Children, Together, Life Together, Future Dreams

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

Topics: Motivational, Keys, People, Self Transformation, Being A Better Person

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Success, Successful Life, Road To Success

How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can.

Topics: Years, Long, Done

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.

Topics: Book, Differences, Years

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

Topics: Succeed, Rich, Hermits

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

Topics: Money, Rich, Poor, Rich And Poor, Financial Independence

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

Topics: Followers, Students, Debate

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

Topics: Inspiration, Two, Choices

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

Topics: Success, Greatness, Errors, Repeated Failure

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

Topics: Time Management, Management, Wherever You Are

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

Topics: Advice, Best Advice, Concentration

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

Topics: Doors, Care, Good Service, Salesperson, Great Customer Service

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

Topics: Dream, Giving, Needs, Inactivity

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

source: - FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2016

Topics: Life, Fitness Motivational, Greatness, Value Of Life, Successful Life

Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.

Topics: Unique, Goal, Stronger, Purposefulness

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Topics: Ignorance, Arrogance, Kind

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Topics: Motivational, Want, Able

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

Topics: Inspirational, Greatness, Envy

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

Topics: Strong, Ideas, Discipline

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Topics: Self Esteem, Greatness, Self Respect, Building Things, Money Motivation

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Topics: Paper, Planning

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

Topics: Attitude, Needs, Helping, Deserving

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Topics: Greatness

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

Topics: Jobs, People, Helping

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Topics: Income, Development, Personal Development, Exceed

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

Topics: Inspirational, Powerful, People

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

Topics: Keys, Able, Life Is, Life Philosophy, Life Learning

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

Topics: People, Needs, Deserve

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

Topics: Wall, Disappointment, Next, Fear None, Enriching

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

Topics: Inspirational, Failure, Errors, Have A Great Day, Self Help

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.

Topics: Life, Opportunity, Missing, Missing Out

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

Topics: Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Topics: Paper, Problem, Solve, Problems And Solutions, Best Place

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

Topics: Responsibility, Sacrifice, Greatness, Great Joy

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

Topics: Inspirational, Friday, Greatness, Successful Life, Sailing And Wind

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

Topics: Happy Life, Able, Bigger

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Topics: Ignorance, Knowledge, Tragedy, Ignorance Is Not Bliss

How long should you try? Until.

Topics: Inspiring, Perseverance, Determination, Brighten Your Day, Perseverance Motivational

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Topics: Motivational, Running, Masters, Either Or, Don't Ever Give Up

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

Topics: People, Fascination, Childlike, Childishness

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

Topics: Speak, Share, Feels, Good Communication

It is better to be a lender than a spender.

Topics: Lenders

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

Topics: Stronger, Truth Is, Enough

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

Topics: Regret, Debt, Life Is

Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

Topics: Mosaics, Pieces, Each Day, Cherish Every Moment

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

Topics: Greatness, Giving, Entrepreneur, Giving And Receiving

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

Topics: Famous Inspirational, Greatness, Light, Clearness, Proceeding

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.

Topics: Perseverance, Believe, Challenges, Challenge Yourself, Stretching Yourself

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Closest, Law Of Averages

Change and everything will change for you.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

Topics: Skills, Needs, Shows, Skillful

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Topics: Philosophy, Unique, Plans, Developing, Listen To Yourself

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

Topics: Problem, Presenting, Solutions, Problems And Solutions

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

Topics: Missing You, Book, Greatness

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

Topics: Motivational, Change, Greatness, Some People Never Change, Starting Anew

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

Topics: Compassion, Stronger, Care

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

Topics: Want

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Succes, Excuse You

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Topics: Relationship, Caring, Persons, Caring More, Caring Person

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Topics: Learning, Miracle, Process

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

Topics: Inspirational, Miracle, Communicate

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Topics: Needs, Soil

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

Topics: Motivational, Way, Concentrating

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Topics: Inspirational, Greatness, Effort, Daily Discipline, Disciplined Life

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.

Topics: Business, Greatness, Doctors, Need Money, Network Marketing

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

source: - "Oprah: Owning It" by Laura Brown, Slide 1, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2012.

Topics: Motivational, Two, Choices, Choose Wisely, Money Isn't Everything

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

Topics: Real, Two, People

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

Topics: People, Faces, Anticipation, Apprehension

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Confidence, Information And Communication, Language And Communication

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Topics: Perseverance, Integrity, Character, Being A Better Person

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Topics: Greatness, Ideas, Giving, Creativeness, Fruit Of Labor

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

Topics: Independence, Income, Financial, Financial Independence

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

Topics: Mistake, Government, Accomplishment, Allowing

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

Topics: Success, Inspiration, Ideas, Ideation

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

Topics: Marketplace, Salesmanship

What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.

Topics: Giving, Return, Investment, Multiplying, Give And Take

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

Topics: Wisdom, Greatness, Two

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

Topics: Leadership, Spiritual, Positivity

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.

Topics: Voice, Needs, Answers, Answers To Life

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

source: - Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

Topics: Children, Issues, Needs, Self Defence

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

Topics: Inspirational, People, Wells, Minor Things

Accuracy builds credibility.

Topics: Inspirational, Credibility, Accuracy

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

Topics: Happiness, Important, Needs

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Topics: Library, Three, Generations

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

Topics: Lying, Opposites, Normal, Road To Success

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Topics: Development, Personal Development, Developing, Obtaining

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

Topics: Morning, Goal, Needs

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide, Suicidal Thoughts, Happiness Is A Choice

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Topics: Needs, Emotion, Explosions, Emotional Energy, Emotionally Unstable

If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.

Topics: People, Faithful, Wish, Social Interaction, Interacting With Others

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.

Topics: Independent, Independence, Income, Financial Independence

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

Topics: Motivational, Progress, Chairs

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

Topics: Philosophy, Errors, Want, Making Amends

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

Topics: Curves, Self, Use, Learning Curve, Step Up

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

Topics: People, Emotion, Wells

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

source: - FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Spiritual Disciplines, Inspirational Goal Setting

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Topics: Strong, Feelings, Translate, Strong Feeling

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

Topics: Children, Wind, Dollars, Trinkets

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

Topics: Business, Ideas, Wish

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Topics: Art, Way, Lifestyle

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

Topics: Moon, Keys, Two, Problems And Solutions

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

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Pushing On, Taking Risks

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

Topics: Retirement, Income, Care, Multiplying, Dependency

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

Topics: Crowds, Easy, Grows

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

Topics: Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking, Creating Value, Mlm

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.

Topics: Mentor, Remember, More Money, Mastermind, Financial Independence

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

Topics: Motivational, Success, Dream, Business Life, Monday Motivation

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Topics: Motivational, Good Life, Greatness, Urgent, Urgency

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

Topics: Powerful, Ideas, Information, Bright Future

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

Topics: Life, Motivational, Positive, Money Motivation, Personal Best

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

Topics: Character, Generosity, Teach

Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

Topics: Uniqueness, Aspects Of Life

Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!

Topics: Demand, Problem, Rich, Major Problems, Get Rich Quick

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

Topics: Creating, Discipline, Miracle

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Topics: Life, Change, Greatness, Sometimes All You Need, Crazy Ideas

Time is the best kept secret of the rich.

Topics: Secret, Kept Secrets, Rich, Best Kept Secrets

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Topics: Ambition, Enemy, Lurking

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

Topics: Inspirational, Winning, Share, Team Building, Cooperation And Collaboration

It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

Topics: New Beginnings, Past, Discipline, Self Discipline, New Day New Beginning

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

Topics: People, Care, Poor, Causes Of Poverty

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.

Topics: Self Esteem, Ocean, Kids, Teaspoons

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Topics: Disease, Neglect, Infection

It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.

Topics: Rewards, Process, Valuable

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

Topics: Philosophy, Valuable

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Topics: Motivational

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.

Topics: Weed, Hate, Garden

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Topics: Leadership, Motivational Sports, Average, Leaders Motivational, Leadership Courage

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

Topics: Motivational, Lists, Should

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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Topics: Success, Basketball, Greatness, Formula For Success, Attracted To Someone

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Topics: People, Live Well, Wells, Life Well Lived

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

Topics: Motivational, Long, Enough

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

Topics: Choices, Way, Used

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Topics: War, Decision, Sometimes

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Topics: Relationship, Kids, Adults

Education must precede motivation.

Topics: Motivation, Precedence, Skills Development

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Topics: Lying, Testimony, Tainted, Don't Lie To Me, Bad Reputation

Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'

Topics: Men, Trying, Mountain

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Topics: Inspiring, Leadership, Greatness, Life Affirming, Affirming

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

Topics: World, Magnificent

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Topics: Mistake, Positivity, Achievement, Being Busy, Personal Goal

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

Topics: Inspirational, Clever, Nice, Nice People, Short Cuts

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

Topics: Philosophy, Work Out, Personal Philosophy

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?

Topics: Inspirational, Mistake, Learning, Solved Problems, Overcoming Challenges

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

Topics: Wages, Motivational Success, Fortune

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

Topics: Ideas, Way, Scales, Valuation, Ideation

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

Topics: Apology, Maturity, Harvest, Harvest Time