Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Strength
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 don’t have charge of the constellations,
but you do have charge of whether you read,
develop new skills, and take new classes.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Change, Responsibility, Persona, Win
If you want to see change, you have to change. If you want your people to get better, you have to get better.
—Jim Rohn
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It’s all available. All you have to do is go to the library.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Books, Future, Libraries, Reading
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
—Jim Rohn
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Value
Some things you have to do every day.
Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of
one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.
—Jim Rohn
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he’s so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Truth
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Concentration, Attitude, Attention
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Self Respect, Self-Esteem
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Vision
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
Topics: Living, Mediocrity, Future
There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn’t let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.
—Jim Rohn
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Success & Failure, Destiny
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Reading, Books
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Knowledge
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.
—Jim Rohn
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Service
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something.
They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
—Jim Rohn
The most important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is “What am I becoming?”
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Work
Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: if you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Ideas
The more you know the less you need to say.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Conversation
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Courage, Decide
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: One liners, Discipline, Accomplishment
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Attitude
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Success, Patience
What you become directly influences what you get.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Progress, Self-improvement
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Philosophers, Philosophy
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Doing Your Best
One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Purpose
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