The Best of Jim Rohn

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn

”If you hear a good health 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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

”Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” ~ Jim Rohn

“You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“The pain of discipline weighs ounces whereas the pain of regret weighs tons.” ~ Jim Rohn

“For things to change you’ve got to change.  Otherwise, nothing much will change.” ~ Jim Rohn

“You cannot speak that which you do not know.  You cannot share that which you do not feel.  You cannot translate that which you do not have.  And you cannot give that which you do not possess.  To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” ~ Jim Rohn

“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” ~ Jim Rohn

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

“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~ Jim Rohn

“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Labor gives birth to ideas.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

“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.” ~ Jim Rohn

"If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” ~ Jim Rohn

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn

“How long should you try? Until.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” ~ Jim Rohn