Quotes by Jim Rohn

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

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

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

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

"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."

"Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become."

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

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

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."

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

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

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

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."

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

"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."

"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."

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

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

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time."

"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."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

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

"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."

"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."

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

"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."

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

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

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness."

"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

"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."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

"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."

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

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me."

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."

"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."

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

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

"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."