Jim Rohn Quotes

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Whatever their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.

I don't think anybody deserves anything than what they already have because I believe everyone gets what they deserve.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Let each man have according to his deserts.

I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.

Liberty: Give to every man the fruit of his own labor -- the labor of his hands and of his brain.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

If you don't deserve to play, you won't play.

The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools, they represent the values of social order and of individual competitive achievement.

I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.

The world doesn't throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it.

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

We are raising a generation of kids where everyone gets a trophy. But in real life, everyone don't get a trophy.

People shouldn't think that something is their birthright. They need to prove themselves.

I wouldn't join Miss Universe if I thought somebody else deserved it more than I do.

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Nothing is given to you.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.