Jim Rohn Quotes

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

I don't live out my career, I live my life.

There is more to life than show business.

I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.