JIM ROHN

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.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

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

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.