Jim Rohn Quotes

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

You control what you can control.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.