Quotes from Jim Rohn

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

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

You can make startling changes you can't even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .

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

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

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

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

Education must precede motivation.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

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

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

Never wish that life were easier; wish that you were better.

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

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.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.