Jim Rohn Quotes

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I want greatness.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

… ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

There's a difference when you want something and when you need something.

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

It is impossible to exist without passion

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.