Jim Rohn Quotes

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

My teachers made me what I am today. I remember they used to instill confidence in me and stress on remaining focused.

I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.