Jim Rohn Quotations | Page 5

Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.

So, before you are tempted to give up or get discouraged, remember all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones that lead to great opportunities in the future.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

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

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

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

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

Be fascinated instead of frustrated.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found 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 only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

Help another and you will be the one who benefits most

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.

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.

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

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

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

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.

The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.

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.

A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us

People would do better, if they knew better.

Associations are both subtle and powerful.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

Take advice, but don't take orders.

Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.

Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.

For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.

We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

It’s not getting the million that’s important, it’s what it makes of you to achieve becoming a MILLIONAIRE.

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

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

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

If you don't change your approach than you will never change your results!

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.

Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.