Jim Rohn Greatness Quotations

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The more you know the less you need to say.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

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

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

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

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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.

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.

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.

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

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

The book you don't read won't help.

Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.

My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Service to others leads to greatness.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.

Labor gives birth to ideas.