Jim Rohn
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
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.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
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.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
The book you don't read won't help.
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.Collection: Yesterday
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.Collection: Life And Love
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.Collection: Inspirational
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.Collection: Get Better
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.Collection: Entrepreneur
One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.Collection: Rewards
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.Collection: Inspirational
When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.Collection: Stronger
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?Collection: Success
The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.Collection: Discipline
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.Collection: Change
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.Collection: Inspirational
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.Collection: Motivational
Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.Collection: Pain
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.Collection: Inspirational
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.Collection: Inspirational
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of youCollection: Inspirational
Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.Collection: Inspirational
Just a few daily disciplines make a big differenceCollection: Differences
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollarsCollection: Motivational
The key to turning dreams into reality is action.Collection: Dream
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.Collection: Procrastination
In order to find, you must first search.Collection: Motivation
If I could just get to Poland everything would be okay.Collection: Would Be
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Dream
Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?Collection: Simple
We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.Collection: Responsibility