Jim Rohn Quotes

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

I'd rather make my own mistakes and pay for them rather than pay for mistakes that are formulistic.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?