Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
—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
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
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline, Accomplishment, One liners
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Excuses
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline, Success & Failure
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: Responsibility, Change, Persona, Win
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Health
The book you don’t read won’t help.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Reading, Book, Books
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
There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Leadership, Influence
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Planning
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Past, The Past
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Labor
For every promise, there is a price to pay. If the promise is clear, the price is easy.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Value, Promises
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Character
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Being True to Yourself
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Giving
By working hard, you get to play hard, guilt-free.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Work
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Motivation, Speed, Education
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
—Jim Rohn
You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.
—Jim Rohn
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.
—Jim Rohn
What you become directly influences what you get.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Progress, Self-improvement
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Questions
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
Now is the time to fix the next ten years.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline
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
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Value
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