Jim Rohn Rational Quotations

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

If you're going to affirm something, affirm the truth. Then go do something about it.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

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.

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.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

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

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.

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

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

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

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

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.

For things to change, you have to change.

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.

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

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

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

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.

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?

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

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

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

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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

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.

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

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.

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

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.

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.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

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.

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

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.

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

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

The more you know the less you need to say.

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.

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

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

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.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Accuracy builds credibility.