Jim Rohn quotes

For every promise, there is price to pay.

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• value

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

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• work

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

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• reading

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

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• leadership

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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• work

The book you don't read won't help.

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• reading

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

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• planning

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

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• reading

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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• goals

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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• desires

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.

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• responsibility

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals

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• success

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

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• communication

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?

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• difficulty

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.

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• character

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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• leadership

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

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• words

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

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• leadership

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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• extraordinarily

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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• effort

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

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• joy

What you become directly influences what you get.

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• progress

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

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• disappointment

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

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• attitude

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

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• labor

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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• money

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

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• happiness

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

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• failure

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.

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• goals

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

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• learning

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

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• risk

Labor gives birth to ideas.

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• ideas

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

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• ideas

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

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• learn

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

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• time

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

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• wealth

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

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• success

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

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• determines

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons inspiration or desperation.

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• change

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.

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• planning

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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• self

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

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• experience

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.

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• questions

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

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• money

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

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• service

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.

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• 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 they have departed.

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• leadership

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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• success

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.

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• leadership

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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• value

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.

• build

Those who will not read are no better off than those who can't read

• better

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

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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.

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One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10 000 worth of advertising.

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The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

• reputation

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.

• learning

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.

• bank

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

• foundation

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.

• communication

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.

• mediocrity

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.

• wish

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.

• waste

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

• service

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

• failure

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

• change

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.

• persistence

Success is something you attract by the person you become.

• success

No one else makes us angry. We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude.

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

• discipline or

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.

• education

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

• work

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.

• aware

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

• easier