Jim Rohn
James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?Collection: Shoes
Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.Collection: Pieces
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.Collection: Attitude
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.Collection: Believe
Results, are the name of the game.Collection: Games
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.Collection: Character
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?Collection: Children
The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.Collection: Self Esteem
When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.Collection: Important
For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.Collection: Get Better
Reasons come first. Answers come secondCollection: Government
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?'Collection: Years
Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.Collection: Goal
You must learn to discipline your disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Inspirational
Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.Collection: Children
Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.Collection: People
Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into the future of their dreams. Let it be you.Collection: Dream
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.Collection: Success
When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.Collection: Inspirational
The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.Collection: Blow
I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!Collection: Library
Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.Collection: Relationship
A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.Collection: Life And Love
Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.Collection: Fitness
You must change your approach in order to change your results.Collection: Order
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.Collection: Happiness
Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, that’s about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.Collection: Stupid
Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.Collection: Use
The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.Collection: What Matters
If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.Collection: Weed
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.Collection: Kindness
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.Collection: Effectiveness
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.Collection: Relationship
Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.Collection: Positive
The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."Collection: Motivational
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.Collection: Inspirational
You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.Collection: Change Yourself
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.Collection: Inspirational
A life worth living is a life worth recording.Collection: Life Worth Living
Imagination is the beginning of reality.Collection: Reality
I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?Collection: Jobs
Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.Collection: Morning
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.Collection: Ambition
Successful people are action oriented.Collection: Successful
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.Collection: Inspirational
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.Collection: Philosophy
I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.Collection: Inspirational