Jim Rohn Quotes

I don't have a lot of discipline.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I am very rigorous with myself.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.

It's really hard to be consistent, and you have to know your body and know yourself.

My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.

When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.

Thanks to my upbringing, I lead a disciplined life, which is very important.