Jim Rohn Motivational Quotations

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

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.

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

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars

Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, 'Jim, I can see you now in your new clothes, in your new home, in your new car. I can see others walking up to you.' The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force!

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

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

I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.

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

Your ability will grow to match your dreams.

For what it will make of you to achieve it.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

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.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

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

If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.

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

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

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

For things to change, you have to change.

The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

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

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

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

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

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

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

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills