Jim Rohn was an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. He was one of the first modern motivational speakers and was known for his philosophy of personal development. He was an influential figure in the personal development industry, having mentored many famous people such as Tony Robbins and Mark Victor Hansen. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jim Rohn on success, change, health.
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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. — Jim Rohn
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. — Jim Rohn
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitable leads to failure.
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills — Jim Rohn
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. — Jim Rohn
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom — Jim Rohn
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. — Jim Rohn
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Jim Rohn Quotes About Change
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. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
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 — Jim Rohn
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. — Jim Rohn
For things to change, you have to change. — Jim Rohn
If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. — Jim Rohn
Change and everything will change for you. — Jim Rohn
The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever. — Jim Rohn
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Health
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. — Jim Rohn
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness. — Jim Rohn
I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards. — Jim Rohn
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 — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Money
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. — Jim Rohn
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. — Jim Rohn
I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts. — Jim Rohn
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. — Jim Rohn
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style. — Jim Rohn
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace. — Jim Rohn
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. — Jim Rohn
Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well. — Jim Rohn
Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’ — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Reading
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. — Jim Rohn
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. — Jim Rohn
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. — Jim Rohn
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn
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? — Jim Rohn
It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter — Jim Rohn
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind. — Jim Rohn
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. — Jim Rohn
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life. — Jim Rohn
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach. — Jim Rohn
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive. — Jim Rohn
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got. — Jim Rohn
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity. — Jim Rohn
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Discipline
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. — Jim Rohn
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. — Jim Rohn
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. — Jim Rohn
The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong. — Jim Rohn
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. — Jim Rohn
If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few. — Jim Rohn
One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave. — Jim Rohn
It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past? — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Relationships
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. — Jim Rohn
You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit. — Jim Rohn
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. — Jim Rohn
Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Learning
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it. — Jim Rohn
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. — Jim Rohn
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back. — Jim Rohn
Learn to hide your need and show your skill. — Jim Rohn
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need — Jim Rohn
Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it. — Jim Rohn
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things. — Jim Rohn
Income seldom exceeds personal development. — Jim Rohn
Learn to express, not impress. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Gratitude
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. — Jim Rohn
Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive. — Jim Rohn
Gratitude is what starts the receiving process. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Motivational
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. — Jim Rohn
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. — Jim Rohn
Accuracy builds credibility. — Jim Rohn
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures. — Jim Rohn
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed! — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. — Jim Rohn
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. — Jim Rohn
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. — Jim Rohn
The more you care, the stronger you can be. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Inspirational
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. — Jim Rohn
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn
You cannot make progress without making decisions. — Jim Rohn
To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract. — Jim Rohn
If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles. — Jim Rohn
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in. — Jim Rohn
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you — Jim Rohn
Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places. — Jim Rohn
If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. — Jim Rohn
Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About People
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. — Jim Rohn
As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go. — Jim Rohn
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside. — Jim Rohn
To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people! — Jim Rohn
Develop a childlike fascination with life and people. — Jim Rohn
If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead. — Jim Rohn
Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably. — Jim Rohn
The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question. — Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. — Jim Rohn
Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. — Jim Rohn
One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us. — Jim Rohn
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?' — Jim Rohn
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success. — Jim Rohn
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. — Jim Rohn
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes About Life
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. — Jim Rohn
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
A life worth living is a life worth recording. — Jim Rohn
Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. — Jim Rohn
If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity. — Jim Rohn
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work. — Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Famous Quotes And Sayings
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. — Jim Rohn
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. — Jim Rohn
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. — Jim Rohn
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries. — Jim Rohn
The more you know the less you need to say. — Jim Rohn
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. — Jim Rohn
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. — Jim Rohn
I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can. — Jim Rohn
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. — Jim Rohn
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't 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. — Jim Rohn
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. — Jim Rohn
Whatever good things we build end up building us. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. — Jim Rohn
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. — Jim Rohn
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. — Jim Rohn
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. — Jim Rohn
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. — Jim Rohn
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. — Jim Rohn
How long should you try? Until. — Jim Rohn
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. — Jim Rohn
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn
Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there. — Jim Rohn
The only healthy communication style is assertive communication. — Jim Rohn
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
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.’ — Jim Rohn
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. — Jim Rohn
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association. — Jim Rohn
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. — Jim Rohn
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence. — Jim Rohn
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. — Jim Rohn
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. — Jim Rohn
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. — Jim Rohn
There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture! — Jim Rohn
Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources. — Jim Rohn
Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. — Jim Rohn
What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know — Jim Rohn
It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it. — Jim Rohn
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?' — Jim Rohn
Labor gives birth to ideas. — Jim Rohn
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have. — Jim Rohn
Life Lessons by Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn taught that success is not only about making money, but also about personal development and growth. He emphasized the importance of setting goals, being disciplined, and taking action to achieve them.
He also believed in the power of surrounding yourself with positive, successful people and learning from them. He encouraged people to invest in their own education and to take responsibility for their own lives.
Finally, Jim Rohn believed in the importance of giving back to others and helping those in need. He encouraged people to use their success to make a positive impact on the world.
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