Jim Rohn Quotes

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Individuality' is the key to success.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.