Jim Rohn Quotes

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

Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

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

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

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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?

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

The more you know the less you need to say.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

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

Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

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.

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

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

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

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

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

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 challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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

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.

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

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