Jim Rohn Quotes

Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.

People always say 'I will fight for a world title in a year' but that sort of thing is not down to me. I feel my job is to be ready when it comes, I just need to know it is coming.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I don't expect success. I prepare for it.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.