Jim Rohn Quotes

“Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value”

“Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.”

“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.”

“A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'”

“We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.”

“Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!”

“Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

“It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.”

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

“Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.”

“Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.”

“In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.”

“People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities”

“In order to find, you must first search.”

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

“The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy”

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

“Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"”

“Service to others leads to greatness.”

“Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.”

“Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.”

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

“There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.”

“Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.”

“Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.”