Jim Rohn Quotes

Only you can control your future.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Each of us have to decide whether we’re going to be a force for progress or an obstacle to progress.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you.

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

What happens next is up to you.

Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

What holds attention determines action.

Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.