Jim Rohn Quotes

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

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

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

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

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

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

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.

Take advice, but don't take orders.

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.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

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

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

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

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

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

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'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

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

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.