Rohn Quotes

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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.

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.

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment

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

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.

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.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

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

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not much.

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.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

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

You must take personal responsibiity. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

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

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.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

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.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

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

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

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

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.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Success is something you attract by the person you become

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

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

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

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

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

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.

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

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

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

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

How long should you try? Until.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

For things to change, you have to change.

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune.

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." -- Jim Rohn

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

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

For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy...

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” —Jim Rohn

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

Formal education will earn you a living.  Self-education will earn you a fortune.”  Jim Rohn

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development because success is something you attract by the person you become.

Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse. —E. James Rohn

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

self-education will make you a fortune

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

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

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

The more you know, the less you need to say.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

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

Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Finding is reserved for those that search.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it’s what we do with them that’s important

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.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.

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.

The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.

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

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

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

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

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

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

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

We don't get what we need. We get what we search for".

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

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.

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.

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.

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

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction. Trying to be “always nice” is to invite certain disaster. Those with poisonous attitudes, strange opinions, and caustic conversations love to look for someone nice who will listen to them. They love to dump their verbal garbage into the mental factory of anyone willing to listen. A major challenge in life is for each person to learn the art of standing guard at the doorway of their mind. Carefully examine the credentials and authority of those seeking to enter within that place where your attitudes are formed.