Jim Rohn Quotes

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

I read books by other coaches all the time.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.