Jim Rohn Quotes (175 Of The Most Powerful)

 

 

Jim Rohn was some what of the Godfather of personal development and an icon in the industry. Considered by some to be the best to every do it. He mentored the icon Tony Robbins. For 40 years he honed his craft and helped millions of people worldwide while he was alive.

But he wasn’t always the most positive and profound man in the room. He started off as a farm boy in Idaho in the mid 1900’s where he led a fairly normal life. Until he met his mentor Earl Shoaff at the age of 25. Under the mentoring of Mr. Shoaff as Jim Rohn often refers to him as, he made his first millions dollars.

After these 6 years he did his first speech titled “Idaho Farm Boy Makes It To Beverly Hills.” The speech was taken so well that he started receiving payed invitations for more speeches.

The rest is history as they say. He went on to deliver speeches to audiences in the thousands, authored books and audios and cemented himself as one of the best personal devlopment speakers of all time. He is one of my favorite influencers and that is why I created this list of the best Jim Rohn quotes of all time.

I hope you enjoy this list, and share with me what your favorite quote was as well as if you have any great ones to add!

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

“Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead failure is a few errors in judgement repeated every day.” – Jim Rohn

“Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.” – Jim Rohn

“Learning is the beginning of wealth, learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” – Jim Rohn

“Success is no to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

“Success is a few simply disciplines, practiced everyday, while failure is simply a few errors in judgement repeated every day.” – Jim Rohn

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

“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

“Never wish life were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom” – 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, you plan will go to work on you. Whatever goo things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn

“Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.” – Jim Rohn

“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.” – Jim Rohn

“Work harder on yourself than you do your job. If you wok hard on your job you can make a living. But if you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“If you want to live a top shelf live, then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.” – Jim Rohn

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” – Jim Rohn

“Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

“Goals. There is not 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 on them.” – Jim Rohn

“Unless you change how you are you will always have what you got.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” – Jim Rohn

“If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.” – Jim Rohn

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

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.”- Jim Rohn

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

“Poor people have big TV’s. Rich people have big libraries.” – Jim Rohn

“If you don’t design you own life plan, chances are you’ll fall in to someone else’s plan, and guest what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

“Be fascinated instead of frustrated.” – Jim Rohn

“For things to change, you have to change.” – Jim Rohn

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances. The season or the wind. But you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn

“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about it.” – Jim Rohn

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn

“You have two choices. You can make a living or you can design a life.” – Jim Rohn

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

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

“Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living. Profits earn you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced everyday.” – Jim ROhn

“Don’t spend major time on minor things.” – Jim Rohn

“Worlds do two major things. They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t join an easy crowd, you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.”- 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

“Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.” – Jim Rohn

“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” – Jim Rohn

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

“We cannot allow ourselves to dwell upon the risks in every opportunity. Instead we must seize the opportunity inherent in every risk, knowing that we must sometimes run the risk of going to far in order to discover how far we really can go.” – Jim Rohn

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself.” First, what could I do. Second, what could I read. And third, who could I ask.” – Jim Rohn

“Finding is reserved for those who search.” – Jim Rohn

“Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you singed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.” – Jim Rohn

“Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you. Either you run the business or the business runs you.” – Jim Rohn

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

“If is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” – Jim Rohn

“Finding is reserved for those that search.” – Jim Rohn

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” – Jim Rohn

“Now is the time to fix the next ten years.” – Jim Rohn

“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.” – Jim Rohn

“Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn

“How sad it is to see a father with money and no joy. That man studied economics but never studied happiness.” – Jim Rohn

“Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. IF you live well, it will show in your face, it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.” – Jim Rohn

“The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.” – Jim Rohn

“We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time, but we get paid for the value, not the time.” – Jim Rohn

“It’s not what happens in the world that determines the major part of your future What happens happens to us all. The key is what you do about it.” – Jim Rohn

“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn

“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.” – Jim Rohn

“The more you know, the less you need to say.” – Jim Rohn

‘The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what ones wants and not give in to it. To spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized. Never knowing.” – Jim Rohn

“You don’t need your obstacles to be smaller, you need to be bigger!.” – Jim Rohn

“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.” – Jim Rohn

“If you don’t sow, you don’t reap. You don’t even have a chance.” – Jim Rohn

“The stronger the why, the easier the how becomes.” – Jim Rohn

“The millionaire says to the thousand people – ‘I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.’ Guess how many go out and get the boo? Very few. Isn’t that incredible? Why wouldn’t everyone go get the book – A Mystery of Life? Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.” – Jim Rohn

“The things that change your life are the people you meet, the classes that you take and the books you read.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t read a book and be a follower, read a book and be a student.” – Jim Rohn

“The major key to your better future is you.” – Jim Rohn

“You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind. But you can change yourself that is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is who you become. That is why I wish to pay a fair price for value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.” – Jim Rohn

“I used to say ‘things cost too much’. Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying ‘ The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood the problem wasn’t ‘it’.” – Jim Rohn

“Everyone must choose one of two pains. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” – Jim Rohn

“Best advice I can give you on that is treat the past like a school. Let it teach you. The mistakes you made, the things that went wrong, the things that didn’t work. Don’t use the past as a burden to carry. Don’t use the past as a club to beat yourself to death. Past losses, past failures, past mistakes. Let the past be a school.” – Jim Rohn

“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn

“Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.” – Jim Rohn

“If you will change, everything will change for you.” – Jim Rohn

“One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.” – Jim Rohn

“Be strong but not rude. Be kind but not weak. Be humble not timid, be proud but not arrogant.” – Jim Rohn

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

“Any day we wish we can start the process of life change, we can do it immediately or next week or next month or next year. We can also do nothing and remain as we are.” – Jim Rohn

“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance.” – Jim Rohn

“Results are the name of the game.” – Jim Rohn

“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worth becoming.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t say ‘If I could, I would’. Say ‘If I can, I will’.” – Jim Rohn

“Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.” – Jim Rohn

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those we are doing well to do even better.” – Jim Rohn

“If you are serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don’t trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across comething important, write it down.” – Jim Rohn

“There are somethings 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

“What is easy to do is also easy not to do.” – Jim Rohn

“Ambition is the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it’s a powerful, creative and constructive force.” – Jim Rohn

“Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.” – Jim Rohn

“Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.” – Jim Rohn

“Learn to not just help people with their jobs, help them with their lives.” – Jim Rohn

“Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” – Jim Rohn

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

“We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.” – Jim Rohn

“How long should you try? UNTIL.” – Jim Rohn

“It’s fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.” – Jim Rohn

“Goal setting is powerful because it provides focus. Focus shapes our dreams. IT gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: “Busy doing what?” – Jim Rohn

“The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.” – Jim Rohn

“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.” – Jim Rohn

“What you get will never make you happy, who you become will make you very happy or very sad.” – Jim Rohn

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

“If you spend five minutes complaining, you just wasted five minutes.” – Jim Rohn

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

“Don’t borrow someone else’s plan. Devleop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.” – 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

“Indecision is the thief of opportunity.” – Jim Rohn

“The same wind blows on all of us. The winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.” – Jim Rohn

“The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.” – Jim Rohn

“Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with out 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 to 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 we can possible be. To read every book 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.”- Jim Rohn

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.” – Jim Rohn

“It’s a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you’ll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past.” – Jim Rohn

“Neglect starts out as an infection and then becomes a disease.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t seek security, seek adventure. It’s better to live 30 years full of adventure than a hundred years in a corner.” – Jim Rohn

“There are two ways to face the future. One is with apprehension, the other is with anticipation.” – 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

“Most people are just trying to get through the day. Never writing anything down, never keeping track of their progress along the way, never really knowing if they are doing all they can do to reach their goals, to drive their ambition. But gifted people learn to get from the day. They don’t let a day end without picking up some valuable experience. Some emotional content, some idea that may positively affect their future. To get the most from the day, you need to be able to reflect on the day. And how can you relect on the day unless you record it in history?” – Jim Rohn

“Sometimes those who need it most are inclined the least.” – Jim Rohn

“If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.” – Jim Rohn

“Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.” – Jim Rohn

“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 it doesn’t matter.” – Jim Rohn

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.” – Jim Rohn

“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” – Jim Rohn

“You can face the future with anticipation if the future is well designed.” – Jim Rohn

“Focus on the solution, not the problem.” – Jim Rohn

“Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.” – Jim Rohn

“You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.” – Jim Rohn

“Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.” – Jim Rohn

“Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” – Jim Rohn

“It is better to be a lender than a spender.” – Jim Rohn

“When you know what you want and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn

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

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

“We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons. Inspiration or desperation.” – Jim Rohn

“Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.” – Jim Rohn

“For every promise, there is a price to pay. If the promise is clear, the price is easy.” – Jim Rohn

“Success Recipe: 2 cups of faith, 2 cups of love, 1 cup of hard work, 1 cup of persistence, 1 tpsp vision and a dash of swagger.” – Jim Rohn

“The book you don’t read can’t help.” – Jim Rohn

“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.” – Jim Rohn

“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses it’s value.” – Jim Rohn

“People would do better, if they knew better.” – Jim Rohn

“Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That’s why they make second grade chairs so small.” – Jim Rohn

“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be of far greater value than what you get.” – Jim Rohn

“We don’t get what we need, we get what we search for.” – Jim Rohn

“Heres a big one on time management, when you work WORK, when you play PLAY. Don’t mix the two.” – Jim Rohn

 

“At the beach, be at the beach, at the office, be at the office.” – Jim Rohn

You gotta be serious about work, because your parting with a piece of life for the work you do.” – Jim Rohn

“Nothing teaches character better than generosity.” – Jim Rohn

“Everyday stand guard at the door of your mind.” – Jim Rohn

“You’ve got to treat work with all due considerate passion, because it’s leading you to your future.” – Jim Rohn

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”- Jim Rohn

“All work is good. You may not like your job. But if it’s the stepping stones to get you where you want to, you’ve got to appreciate your job. You don’t have to have a passion for your job. Here’s the ultimate passion. The passion for success in every department of my life. That’s the passion. But don’t look down on some menial job you have to do to finally get you to where you want to go. No job is meanial, every job is noble, training life for pay. Making a contribution to society.” – Jim Rohn

“Let all communication systems serve you, but don’t let them intrude.” – Jim Rohn

“Part of the fun of having a list is checking it off.” – Jim Rohn

“If the future get’s clear, the price gets easy.” – Jim Rohn

“For every promise, there’s a price to pay. If the promise is clear and powerful, the price is easy to pay.” – Jim Rohn

“The best advice I can give you is that if I can do it, you can do it.” – 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 relationship, for your future.” – Jim Rohn

“Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.” – Jim Rohn

“Get serious, life is serious. We call it LIFE or DEATH.” – Jim Rohn

“Life is the struggle to keep death at a respectable distance.” – Jim Rohn

“That’s the first key to wealth formula. Service to many, find a way.” – Jim Rohn

“Asking what can I do and beginning the process starts wealth moving in your direction.” – Jim Rohn

“Whatever you tend to move toward tends to move towards you.” – Jim Rohn

“You don’t supply your need by concentrating on your need. You supply your need by concentrating on the answer, by the deserving. Helping enough people.” – Jim Rohn

“Success is something you attract by becoming an attractive person.” – Jim Rohn

“Here’s what I learned. Not to search for the exotic until you’ve learned the basic.” – Jim Rohn

There you are my friends, the best quotes every muttered by the legend Jim Rohn. I hope you enjoyed this list of Jim Rohn quotes and obtained value from them.

Share with me what your favorite quotes were as well as if you have any you want me to add or talk about in the comment section below! Lets’s talk!

 

Chris