"We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast"
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
Jim Rohn was a renowned entrepreneur and motivational speaker known for his insights on personal development and success strategies.
- Born
- September 17, 1930
- Died
- December 5, 2009
- Quotes
- 796
- Rank
- #318
Quote collection
Jim Rohn quotes (page 26 of 40)
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"Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least."
"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you."
"Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress."
"Asking is the beginning of receiving."
"The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information."
"It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future."
"Treat the past as a school."
"The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development"
"We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion."
"Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call."
"A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window."
"Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness."
"Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it."
"Associations are both subtle and powerful."
"Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed."
"A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering."
"Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued."
"Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done."
"Don't mistake movement for achievement."