Jim Rohn Quotes

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

Political activity means working for the future; the more we look into the future the more far-sighted will our policy be - so much the more clear and decided. The less far we try to see into the future, the more we content ourselves with the daily routine (Alltäglichkeit), the more weak and uncertain will be our policy of to-day. Every politician of note must, therefore endeavor out of the present to conclude what the future will be, and, if he wants to win the masses to his politics then he must attempt to make his expectations of the future plausible

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I'm a constant waffler. I've said to anyone I've ever dated, 'Asking me to choose a restaurant is going to be a conversation that's going on for a while.'

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.