You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim RohnRead
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Interpretation
Setting a goal transforms your character and skills more than the goal itself.
Jim Rohn emphasizes that the journey of pursuing a goal is more important than the goal's end result. The personal growth, discipline, and values you develop while striving for that goal provide lasting benefits that exceed the actual achievements.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire college students to set achievable goals.
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.
Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.
Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.
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