Jim Rohn Quotes

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I do believe in self-help.

Improvement begins with I.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.