Jim Rohn quotes:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

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

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

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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

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

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.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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.

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

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

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

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

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.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better.

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.

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.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

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

The major key to your better future is you.

We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

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.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

How long should you try? Until.

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

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.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

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.

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

Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.

Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery."

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

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

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

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

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

Accuracy builds credibility.

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.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.

If you don't change your approach than you will never change your results!

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

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.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

The key to turning dreams into reality is action.

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.