Top 798 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Rohn - Page 9

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."

For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.

What you don't know will hurt you.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves.

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.

You must learn to discipline your disappointment.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure

Help another and you will be the one who benefits most

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.

The major key to your better future is you.

You must change your approach in order to change your results.

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

To have more, we must first become more.

What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness, health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

Good people are found, not changed.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

Service to others leads to greatness.

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your health. Life without balance can cost you your spirituality. Life without balance can cost you your wealth and your happiness. So find things to motivate you from all areas of life. Your success depends on it.

Direction determines destination.

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy