Jim Rohn's quotes will inspire you and bring out the very best in you.  (when put into action...)

Jim Rohn was an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker who inspired millions around the globe. Rohn was a pioneer in the personal development industry. His words of wisdom resonate to this day.

Tony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Brown are just a few leaders he influenced. They influence millions more today sharing Rohn’s message and often times his motivational quotes.

Rohn’s approach is simple, to achieve success and happiness in this life, you work hard and learn from your experiences. That empowers you to pursue your dreams and fulfill your goals for steady progress.

For Jim Rohn, personal development meant personal responsibility.

With the personal responsibility mindset, you take ownership of the problems and challenges life will throw at you. 

In fact, you take care of them with a sense of urgency. That doesn’t mean you’ll have fewer challenges…they’ll keep coming.  You’ll get better at dealing with them through experience.

Have you sharpened your communications skills?

Rohm also championed the crucial skill of becoming an effective communicator. If you can’t communicate well, you can’t share your thoughts or ideas to make an impact on this world. Effective communication is the key factor that leads to connections which in turn develops meaningful relationships and great joy. 

Significant personal growth and progress depends on mastering communications by listening to others. Rhon was adamant about that.

When you embrace the mindset and habits of other successful entrepreneurs and leaders, you can strive for great success in your life meeting your personal goals.  This includes all areas of your life from relationships, to your health ,wealth and spiritually for a better future.

As you study Rohn’s teachings over time,  you’ll learn this life is not a destination. He views life as an incredible journey of service to others.

Yes, Rohn's message is simple. It’s also very powerful – investing in yourself to improve yourself is always a good idea.  As you do that your personal habits guided by an intentional and disciplined effort will transform your life. 

Through this life, your greatest gifts in life will come from serving others.

Jim Rohn is best known for the 50 inspirational quotes below:

1. "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

2. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

3. "We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."

4. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

5. "Don’t say, ‘If I could, I would.’ Say, ‘If I can, I will."

6. "Either you run the day or the day runs you."

7. "Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live."

8. "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

9. "One discipline always leads to another discipline."

10. "You must be careful not to let your current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast."

11. "You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

12. "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

13. "The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?"

14. "Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you got."

15. "Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got."

16. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

17. "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

18. "Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot."

19. "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

20. "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you."

21. "Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life–the opportunity to change yourself."

22. "Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."

23. "Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely."

24. "Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

25. "You cannot make progress without making decisions."

26. "Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can’t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing."

27. "How long should you try? Until."

28. "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."

29. "Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well."

30. "The more you know, the less you need to say."

31. "Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out."

32. "The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

33. "No one else ‘makes us angry.’ We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude."

34. "We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value."

35. "The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit."

36. "Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book."

37. "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

38. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

39. "The more you care, the stronger you can be."

40. "For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward."

41.  "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

42. "Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."

43. "Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."

44. "It isn’t what the book costs; it’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it."

45. "Successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do."

46. "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

47. "Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high."

48. "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

49. "The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."

50. "The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire." 

Put  into practice Jim Rohn's quotes to reach your true human potential!

There’s a ton of life’s hard knocks and wisdom packed into Rohn’s famous quotes above. As leaders, we’ll benefit as we put his wisdom to practice for successful living. 

Rohn’s basic fundamentals will help you make better decisions leading to measurable progress you that will touch on all areas of your life.

Rohn isn’t promising you easy. This is important, don’t let the easy stuff distract you from your goals. Too often, the shiny object syndrome fueled by social media will take you down the wrong road.

With your objective in mind, hard work, dedication, determination, and discipline, you’ll find your greatest rewards serving others.

Or in the words of Emanuel James Rohn’s as we close, he said, “Remember, true leadership is not about amassing power or wealth for oneself, but about using one's influence and abilities to make a positive impact on the world.