A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim Rohn

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim Rohn

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn


Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn