Quotes by Jim Rohn

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Let your library be a testimonial of your dedicated interest in accelerated personal development, that you will read whatever you have to read you will hear whatever you must hear and you will watch and see whatever you must see in order to make your life refined and worthwhile and achieve all your purpose.

You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it.

We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want.

We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want.

William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldnt have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn

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

Dont wish it was easier, wish you were better. Dont wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Dont wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

It doesn’t matter whether someone thinks I’mshort or tall, but it matters if I stand tall in my owneyes—because I know my disciplines, I know whatI’m doing, I know whether I’m doing it or not doing it.It doesn’t have to be published in some local paper,as long as I know that I’m paying the price and that Ideserve the applause and I deserve the prize. That’swhat’s exciting. That’s why this goal setting is soimportant. It challenges you to grow. It challengesyou to become more than you are, to move up to thenext level. And that’s key.

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

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

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

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.