Jim Rohn Quotes

Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.

Mostly, a library, or lack of one, tells me what a person is thinking or if he or she is thinking at all. The choice of books and tapes reveals a person’s predominant thoughts, desires, and values.

Don't wish easier, wish you were better. When you become better it will naturally become easier.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The harvest, which is our life as we now live it, is the result of seeds planted at an earlier time

The promise of the future is not free. There is a price to be paid for any future reward. The price the future exacts from us involves discipline, labor, consistency and a burning desire to make the future better than either the past or the present. Those are the price tags of progress, but the price gets easy when the promise becomes clear. When the end becomes attractive, we become keenly interested in the means. We must see and want the promise with an insatiable desire, or the price it requires will overcome our wishes, and we will fall back to where we once were.

The fault… is not in the stars, but in ourselves.

A parent spends three hours watching TV and only ten minutes playing with the children.

Seeing what you can become and what you can help others become is the major challenge in life.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have.

Grandparents should not have to say, “I’ve worked all my life and now I need help.” They should be able to say, “I’ve worked all my life; now I can help.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. When you become better, it will naturally become easier.

A man asks me, “How come all this stuff goes wrong for me?” I say, “I don’t know. Beats me! The most I’ve been able to figure out is that those kinds of things always happen to people like you.” I’ll bet he’s one of the ones who don’t take advantage of good ideas. If he continues on that path, he’ll probably never find the right combination. That honor will always fall on the ones who do… like you.

Wishes are an anesthetic to
be used by the unambitious, a
narcotic that dulls their awareness of
their own desperate condition

Most of what you have today, you have attracted by becoming the person you are today.