Jim Rohn Quotes

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

My biggest opponent was 'me.'

There have been moments in the past where I haven't made it easy for myself.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously -- and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

My greatest enemy at one point was myself, and so now once I got over the fear of myself I don't fear any man. I never have.