Jim Rohn famous quotes

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
-- Jim Rohn

#Unhappiness #Source

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Relationship #Impact #Long

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
-- Jim Rohn

#Negative #Wells

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

#Jobs #Hard Work #Fortune

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

#Inspirational #Happiness #Smart

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
-- Jim Rohn

#Spiritual #Jobs #Work

For things to change, you have to change.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Motivational

You cannot make progress without making decisions.
-- Jim Rohn

#Decision #Progress #Making Decisions

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Change

The more you know the less you need to say.
-- Jim Rohn

#Life #Greatness #Silence

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

#Play #Two

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Motivational #Encouragement

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

#Inspiring #Success #Life And Love

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!
-- Jim Rohn

#Men #Mind #Favorite Places

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Learning

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

#Inspirational #Time #Money

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

#Needs #Sometimes

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Business #Investment

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

#Success #Education #Money

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

#Riches #Wealth #Fingers

Learn to express, not impress.
-- Jim Rohn

#Impress

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Giving Up #Philosophy #Thinking

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

#Share #Willing

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

#Inspirational #Change #Inspiring

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

#Waiting #Today #Tomorrow

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

#Goal #Self Help #Reason

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

#Motivational #Sad #Father

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you
-- Jim Rohn

#Reflection #Growth #Personal Growth

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

#Leadership #People #Leader

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Life #Change

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

#Change

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Greed #Killers

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

#Helping Others #Generosity #Giving

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

#Leadership #Fall #Ideas

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’
-- Jim Rohn

#Teacher #Cost #Too Much

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Insperational

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

#Reality #Difficulty #Ability

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Support #Mind #Working Together

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Family #Garden #Imagination

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

#Life #Motivational #Inspiring

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
-- Jim Rohn

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Style #Able #Way

What you become directly influences what you get.
-- Jim Rohn

#Influence

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Encouragement #Inspiration #Learning

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.
-- Jim Rohn

#Fortune

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
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Life #Positive #Hurt

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Dream #Children #Together

Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!
-- Jim Rohn

#Years #Long #Lasts

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

#Motivational #Keys #People

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
-- Jim Rohn

#Expectations #Demand #Crowds

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

#Life #Motivational #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.
-- Jim Rohn

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Book #Differences #Years

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

#Succeed #Rich #Hermits

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

#Money #Rich #Poor

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

#Followers #Students #Debate

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

#Inspiration #Two #Choices

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

#Success #Greatness #Errors

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

#Time Management #Management

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Doors #Care #Good Service

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

#Dream #Giving #Needs

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

#Life #Fitness Motivational #Greatness

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Unique #Goal #Stronger

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.
-- Jim Rohn

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Motivational #Want #Able

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

#Inspirational #Greatness #Envy

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

#Strong #Ideas #Discipline

Whatever good things we build end up building us.
-- Jim Rohn

#Self Esteem #Greatness #Self Respect

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
-- Jim Rohn

#Paper #Planning

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

#Attitude #Needs #Helping

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

#Greatness

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

#Jobs #People #Helping

Income seldom exceeds personal development.
-- Jim Rohn

#Income #Development #Personal Development

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Greatness #What Matters

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspirational #Powerful #People

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

#Keys #Able #Life Is

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Wall #Disappointment #Next

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

#Inspirational #Failure #Errors

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Life #Opportunity #Missing

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.
-- Jim Rohn

#Attention #Pay #Pay Attention

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.
-- Jim Rohn

#Paper #Problem #Solve

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

#Responsibility #Sacrifice #Greatness

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

#Inspirational #Friday #Greatness

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Ignorance #Knowledge #Tragedy

How long should you try? Until.
-- Jim Rohn

#Inspiring #Perseverance #Determination

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Motivational #Running #Masters

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.
-- Jim Rohn

#People #Fascination #Childlike

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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Speak #Share #Feels

It is better to be a lender than a spender.
-- Jim Rohn

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

#Stronger #Truth Is #Enough

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

#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.
-- Jim Rohn

#Mosaics #Pieces #Each Day