Jim Rohn
American entrepreneur and motivational speaker, 1930-2009
71 quotes.
Quotes by Jim Rohn
- A good plan is a simple plan.
- All leaders are readers.
- Be sure to set meaningful goals for yourself when designing the life you want to live. Your quality of life will depend on the dreams you create for yourself, so dive in and make it count.
- Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.
- Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
- Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
- Don’t say, “If I could, I would”. Say, “If I can, I will”.
- Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
- Either you run the day or the day runs you.
- Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
- For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
- How long should you try? Until.
- I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
- If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
- If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
- If you don't design your own life plan chances are you will fall into someone else's plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much!
- If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
- If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
- If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
- If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.
- Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
- Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
- Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
- Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
- Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.
- 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.
- Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
- Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
- Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
- Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.
- Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
- Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.
- Suffer the pain of discipline now to avoid the pain of regret later.
- Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.