Jim Rohn

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment repeated every day.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

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

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

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

Don't say, 'If I could, I would.' Say, 'If I can, I will.'

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

The finished product we foresee guides us in our present efforts, making the attainment of the better future an inevitable conclusion. We become pulled by the future and guided by the past because we have chosen to take intelligent action in the present.

What we know and how we feel merely determine our potential for achievement. Whether we actually achieve our goals is ultimately determined by our activity.

Personal development is not always an easy matter, but the worst days experienced by those who give attention to the affairs of self-development are better than the best days of those who do not.

In the end, our lives will be judged not by the things we began, but by the things that our effort and resolve brought to a successful conclusion.

For things to change, we must change—that is one of life’s fundamentals.

Taken one step at a time, all the things that success and happiness require are actually quite easy to do.

With the right attitude human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

Each of us will be somewhere in the next twelve months; the question we must ask ourselves is where?

The punishment for excessive rest is mediocrity.

All the possibilities of greatness—great wealth, great reputation, great satisfaction—come if you turn your attention away from yourself to others.

Here’s another question: ‘What can I do to achieve my goals that I’m not doing now?’ What things do you need to work on that you’re not working on now? Remember, it’s easy to do the little things, every day. It’s also easy not to do them.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

There’s no failure in pouring your heart, soul, and energy into something that doesn’t work. Rather, failure is not trying at all. If success is the steady progress toward your own personal goals, then failure is no progress at all.

Remember, the best money spent is the money spent to cultivate the genius of your own mind and spirit. Make sure you don’t spend more for frivolous comforts and conveniences than you do for education. The money is a small price. The promise is unlimited potential.

Instead of worrying, concentrate on doing the best job you’ve ever done in your life.

Hear or read something challenging, something inspirational, at least 30 minutes a day, every day. You can get along without some meals, but you can’t get along without some ideas, examples, and inspiration.

The consistent, disciplined, purposeful, constant search for knowledge: it’s where the life-changing ideas are. Pursue knowledge with high expectations.

If there is one magic word that stands out above all the rest, it is discipline.

The only way life gets better for you is when you get better. Better is not something you wish for; better is something you become.

Character isn’t something you’re born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

There are two types of pain you will go through in your life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons.

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.