The Top 101 Jim Rohn Quotes of All Time

1. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.5

2. 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.
3. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment9
4. Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to
perform are high.
5. Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The
question is: Busy doing what?
6. Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
7. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
8. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
9. Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.
10. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
11. 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.
12. Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
13. Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first
choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less.
To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices
that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant
apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all!
To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as
much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and
produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can.
14. Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.
15. Either you run the day or the day runs you..
16. 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.
17. Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
18. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few
errors in judgement, repeated every day.
19. Finding is reserved for those that search.
20. For what it will make of you to achieve it.
21. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you
design.
26. Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
27. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the
present.
28. How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never
studied happiness.
29. Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a
difference between a “must” and a “want.”
30. Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease
31. 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.
32. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their
lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
33. I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
34. 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.
35. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
36. 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.5
37. If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
38. If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work
miracles.
39. If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.
43. 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.
44. Its what you dont know what will hurt you.
45. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
46. Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
47. Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.
48. Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply
because they major in minor things.
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
52. Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves
better than they are.
53. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
54. Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
55. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
56. My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
57. One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your
mental “I should” list.
58. One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
59. Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
60. Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
61. 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.
62. Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one
a day just isn’t going to get the job done
63. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
64. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
65. 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.
66. Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.
67. Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
68. 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.
69. 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.
70. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
71. 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.
72. 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.
73. The more you know, the less you need to say.
74. 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.
75. The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve
them.
76. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
77. The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who
don’t.
78. 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.
79. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it’s what we do with them that’s
important.
80. There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While
some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end
of this you want to get in on.
81. There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of
regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.
82. Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
83. Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
84. 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.
85. We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
86. We don’t get paid for the hour; we get paid for the value we bring to the hour.
87. We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time… but we get paid for the
value, not the time.
88. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Discipline weights ounces–regret weighs tons.
89. We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax,
the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of
value.
90. What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.
91. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
92. When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
93. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
94. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
95. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
96. You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
97. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
98. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the season or
the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
99. You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become
someone worth becoming.
100. 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.
101. Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.