Jim Rohn Quotes

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Only you can control your future.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

You shape your own destiny.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

I'm all about owning your life.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard