Jim Rohn - Your life does not get better by chance. It gets...
Jim Rohn
American business philosopher · 1930–2009
Jim Rohn: American entrepreneur and motivational speaker known for practical wisdom on wealth, success, and personal development.
More by Jim Rohn
"Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better."
"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."
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."
"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it."
"Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have."
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
More quotes about life
See all →“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
— Erich Fromm
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
— Albert Einstein
“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.”
— Howard Schultz
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
— Victoria Holt
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.”
— Joseph Addison
More quotes about change
See all →“One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”
— Barack Obama
“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon.. Everything is Different.”
— Bill Watterson
“You must be the change you want to see in the world..”
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
— Pericles
“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
— Lin Yutang
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
More quotes about inspire
See all →“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
— Elizabeth Kubler Ross
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.. But I am still growing (about Mount Everest).”
— Edmund Hillary
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Our words are buttressed by our deeds, and our deeds are inspired by our convictions.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
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