Jim Rohn Quotes

There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Senior military officers will not accept defense reform unless it is forced upon them.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

I trust you because I need you.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

If I'm like, 'Oh, this is not something that I want to do,' that means I have to do it. That's always a good motivation.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as when he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.

My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.