Jim Rohn Quotations | Page 2

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

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

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

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

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

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

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.’

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

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

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

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

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.

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.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

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

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

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.

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

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

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

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

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

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

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

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

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

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

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

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

One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.

One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

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

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

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.

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.

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.