Jim Rohn Quotes

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

I have always liked a challenge.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I've always loved a challenge.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

From flying in the cockpit of an A-10 to chairing hearings on Capitol Hill, I've learned that each of us will face struggles as we pursue our goals.

We've all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can't seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, 'You know what? That's not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.'

Whoever I am up against I will give everything, like always.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

I hope my story could become an inspiration of determination, discipline, faith and hardwork.

It is definitely hard when you're going against the tide. Of course, it is tough. But does that mean you can't do it? No, it depends on your strength, stamina and ability to take so much power against you.

Problems just make me more determined.

It's not difficult to move forward when you have nothing to lose. Right? At the time, I had nothing to lose. So, even when people were trying to degrade me, I couldn't let them take the only thing I had, which was my dream. I had to move forward and, thank God, I kept trying.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.