Jim Rohn is considered the father of self-help, due to the high quality of information and practices that he has been able to convey to the public. He is the one who started Tony Robbins in the field of personal development, one of the best known authors today and responsible for some of the most inspiring quotes.
Although he died in 2009, his phrases continue to live and will live for a long time. You may also be interested in these Tony Robbins phrases or these self-help ones.
Best Jim Rohn Quotes
1-Discipline is the bridge between goals and achievements.
2-Learn to be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want.
3-You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. It's something you have to take care of.
4-Formal education will give you a life; self-education will give you a fortune.
5-We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
6-Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.
7-If you don't like how things are, change them. You are not a tree.
8-You are the average of the five people with whom you spend the most time.
9-Either you direct the day or the day directs you.
10-If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to get used to the ordinary.
11-Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
12-The greatest value in life is not what you get. The greatest value in life is what you become.
13-Motivation is what makes you start. Habit is what keeps you going.
14-Surround yourself with people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life once they are gone.
15-Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you have the gift, style, clarity and emotions to affect other people.
16-Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it's something you design for the present.
17-If you do not design your own life plan, you will probably fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you. Not much.
18-The walls that we build to keep out sadness also leave out joy.
19-When you know what you want, and you want it enough, you will find a way to get it.
20-Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
21-Maturity is the ability to receive without apology and not to complain when things do not go well.
22-The few who do are the envy of the many who only see.
23-Success is not pursued; is attracted to the person you become.
24-Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
25-Success is constant progress towards personal goals.
26-Success is nothing more than a few disciplines practiced daily.
27-Learn to say no. Don't let your mouth weigh down your back.
28-You have to set a goal big enough so that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worthwhile.
29-The difference between where you are today and where you will be five years later is found in the quality of the books you read.
30-Character is not something you were born with and that you cannot change, like your fingerprints. It is something you were not born with and for which you must take responsibility to train.
31-Failure is not a cataclysmic and individual event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated daily.
32-Success is not magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basics.
33-If you are going to work on your goals, your goals will work for you. If you are going to work on your plan, your plan will work for you. Whatever good we build, they end up building us.
34-Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miraculous process begins.
35-Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others discuss small matters, but not you. Let others cry over little pains, but not you. Let others leave their future in the hands of others, but not you.
36-It is easy to carry the past as a burden instead of as a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you rather than educate you.
37-One of the great gifts you can give someone is your attention.
38-You are not paid by the hour. You are paid for the value you contribute to the hour.
39-Ideas can change life. Sometimes all you have to open the door to is a good idea.
40-Your personal philosophy is the most determining factor in the way your life works.
41-Work harder on yourself than on your job.
42-The worst thing you can do is not try, be aware of what you want and not try, spend years in silent pain wondering if something could have materialized.
43-You cannot change your destination during the night, but you can change your address during the night.
44-It is the placement of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines the way we go.
45-Giving is better than receiving because giving begins the process of receiving.
46-For things to change, you have to change.
47-Make measurable progress in reasonable times.
48-You do not wish it were simpler, you wish you were better.
49-Time has more value than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time.
50-Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
51-Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
52-Money is normally attracted, not pursued.
53-You must modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
54-Excuses are the nails used to build houses of failures.
55-Generally we change for one of two reasons: inspiration or despair.
56-A good goal of leadership is to help those who do poorly to do better and help those who do well to do even better.
57-The more you know, the less you need to say.
58-Part of your inheritance in this society is the opportunity to be financially independent.
59-Find is reserved for those who seek.
60-For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
61-Successful people have great libraries. The rest have large television screens.
62-The book that you do not read will not help.
63-It is not what books cost you. It's what it will cost you if you don't read them.
64-We can have more than what we have because we can become more than what we are.
65-Some things have to be done every day. Eating seven apples on a Saturday instead of one a day doesn't work.
66-Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort and imagination must be constantly maintained to maintain a growing and flourishing relationship.
67-The leadership challenge is to be strong, but not rude, to be kind, but not weak, to be thoughtful, but not lazy, to be humble, but not shy, to be proud, but not arrogant.
68-Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
69-Those who do not read are no better than those who cannot read.
70-The economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing little and wanting a lot.
71-If you want to be a leader you have to be willing to be criticized.
72-The great challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of being.
