Top 798 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Rohn - Page 3

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune... Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here's the big one. Believe in yourself.

Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

The more obstacles you face and overcome, the more times you falter and get back on track, the more difficulties you struggle with and conquer, the more resiliency you will naturally develop. There is nothing that can hold you back, if you are resilient.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

For things to change, you have to change.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

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

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?'

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

Everything changes when you change.

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

Accuracy builds credibility.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Change and everything will change for you.