Jim Rohn

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

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.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here's the big one. Believe in yourself.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

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.