Jim Rohn Quotes

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’

We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.