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
The book you don’t read won’t help.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Reading, Books, Book
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
I can promise you that the challenges you’ll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Strength
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals, Productivity, Time Management
We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Risk
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, Education, Speed
One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Purpose
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
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Trying, Regret
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals, Goal
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Attention, Concentration, Attitude
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Being True to Yourself, Questions
If you don’t like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn’t enough, change it. If something doesn’t suit you, change it. If something doesn’t please you, change it. You don’t ever have to be the same after today. If you don’t like your present address change it – you’re not a tree!
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Change
Ask yourself, “How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?” I suggest you answer, “As long as it takes.”
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Dreams
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
—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
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Success & Failure, Destiny
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Effort, Discipline, One liners
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Success
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline
I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do—if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Miracles, Doing Your Best
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
—Jim Rohn
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Learning
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Money
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something.
They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
—Jim Rohn
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Planning
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Performance
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: Reading, Future, Libraries, Books
We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals
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