Jim Rohn Quotes

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

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

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.