Jim Rohn Quotes

I believe so strongly that you always need to leave things better than you found it.

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

It's one thing to plant a tree, it's another to make it survive. If you know you are not going to take care of that tree, don't bother

It's just cool to try to leave behind something or improve something from how you left it.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

We want to believe that we can continue doing what we've done for the past thousand years and not worry about the consequences coming back to us.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

Are we being good ancestors?

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.