Best Jim Rohn Quotes

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

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.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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?

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

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.

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

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

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.

The more you know the less you need to say.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

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

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

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 they have departed.

The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

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.

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.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

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

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

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

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

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

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

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.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

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