Jim Rohn Quotes

Think your own thoughts.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I'm not 100 percent anybody's ideological prism.

I've never been the sort of guy who wants to emulate this guy or that guy. I just try to forge my own path.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I'm very much a person of free thought.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

I've never been a 'yes person.'

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?' 'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.