Jim Rohn Quotes

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I try and do whatever I want with my free time. I think having control of what you do is really important.

I see too many children who have their lives decided for them from the moment they are born. I want to give them the power to decide their own lives.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.