Top 500 Jim Rohn Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!”

— Jim Rohn

452. “Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.”

— Jim Rohn

453. “Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.”

— Jim Rohn

454. “We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.”

— Jim Rohn

455. “You cannot succeed by yourself. It’s hard to find a rich hermit.”

— Jim Rohn

456. “The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.”

— Jim Rohn

457. “You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.”

— Jim Rohn

458. “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

459. “The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.”

— Jim Rohn

460. “There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.”

— Jim Rohn

461. “One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.”

— Jim Rohn

462. “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

463. “How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.”

— Jim Rohn

464. “Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.”

— Jim Rohn

465. “How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn’t matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you’ve done the best you can.”

— Jim Rohn

466. “It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.”

— Jim Rohn

467. “Measure your emotions. You don’t need an atomic explosion for a minor point.”

— Jim Rohn

468. “Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.”

— Jim Rohn

469. “We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast.”

— Jim Rohn

470. “You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.”

— Jim Rohn

471. “Here’s the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!”

— Jim Rohn

472. “Someone once said to me that success isn’t everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn’t everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.”

— Jim Rohn

473. “Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.”

— Jim Rohn

474. “Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.”

— Jim Rohn

475. “Don’t leave a ‘good time’ to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.”

— Jim Rohn

476. “There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.”

— Jim Rohn

477. “Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.”

— Jim Rohn

478. “Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.”

— Jim Rohn

479. “Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.”

— Jim Rohn

480. “Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.”

— Jim Rohn

481. “Ideas are information taking shape.”

— Jim Rohn

482. “Some teachers teach for others to learn. That’s not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.”

— Jim Rohn

483. “How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.”

— Jim Rohn

484. “Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.”

— Jim Rohn

485. “You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.”

— Jim Rohn

486. “Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.”

— Jim Rohn

487. “What you become directly influences what you get.”

— Jim Rohn

488. “Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.”

— Jim Rohn

489. “The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.”

— Jim Rohn

490. “Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, ‘We don’t teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.’ Wow! What a clever short cut.”

— Jim Rohn

491. “Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.”

— Jim Rohn

492. “We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.”

— Jim Rohn

493. “Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .”

— Jim Rohn

494. “Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.”

— Jim Rohn

495. “Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.”

— Jim Rohn

496. “Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.”

— Jim Rohn

497. “Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.”

— Jim Rohn

498. “Don’t blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music.”

— Jim Rohn

499. “It’s too bad failures don’t give seminars. Wouldn’t that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you’ve just got to say, ‘John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?’”

— Jim Rohn

500. “One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.”

— Jim Rohn