Jim Rohn

Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don’t remember any. Maybe it’s my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it’s my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.

There will be times when your best isn’t your good enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best you’ll be OK.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Accountability breeds responsibility.

My dream was to make $1,000 a week, have a Cadillac convertible and an apartment on Ocean Park where I would’ve thought that would be nirvana.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.