Quotes By Jim Rohn

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

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

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

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

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

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

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.

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

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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

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

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 book you don't read won't help.

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

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.