Jim Rohn Quotes

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

Good people are found, not changed.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

When you’re training Parkour with passion, if you’re good, people will notice you. Don’t go around saying, ‘Hey look at this new move I got.’ No. We used to say, ‘If it’s good we’ll tell you.’ Do it for yourself first.

Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I'm glad that people have responded well to it, so far. I'm thankful for that. But, I'm also excited now that I have a better grasp of this character than I did before. I want to take it even further and really explore who Glenn is.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.