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The Treasury of Quotes
The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn A must for every library! A magnificent, blockbuster book that is a collection of over 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim Rohn's personal journals, seminars and books. These quotes reflect over 37 years of experience in business, sharing ideas and affecting lives. Topics Goals
America
Success
Desire
Business
Wealth
Leadership
Discipline
Personal Development
Time Management
Communications
Fundamentals and more!
America
Success
Desire
Business
Wealth
Leadership
Discipline
Personal Development
Time Management
Communications
Fundamentals and more!
126 pages, Hardcover
First published August 19, 2011
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About the author
Jim Rohn
220 books1,524 followersEmanuel James "Jim" Rohn was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. His rags to riches story played a large part in his work, which influenced others in the personal development industry.
Rohn was the recipient of the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award for excellence in speaking.
Rohn was the recipient of the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award for excellence in speaking.
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May 13, 2014
I think I quote Jim Rohn every week, and more often then not people write down the quote. He just breaks life down into the critical few things that really matter and as he used to say "Don't major in minor things"
March 14, 2008
Great motivational messages for every day.
February 18, 2017
This book is full of some incredible and unique perspective! A quick and enjoyable read.
February 4, 2011
inspirational!
July 5, 2013
A book I like to refer on daily basis to understand and get inspiration.
February 19, 2013
A book I'll return to many times.
2013 will be a big year for me in terms of personal development and to learn from the best. Jim Rohn leads the way.
2013 will be a big year for me in terms of personal development and to learn from the best. Jim Rohn leads the way.
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November 10, 2025
This book was an easy quick read and truly opened my eyes to so much. Jim Rohn really makes you look at things from a completely different perspective and simply says it how it is. This is the book you read multiple times, until it is ingrained into your memory. I have written and memorized my favorite quotes from the book and the ones that stood out to me the most, but I’d really like to memorize the whole thing (that’s how good it is). He is an author I will definitely be quoting moving forward and his words really make you say “wow” and think deeply. Easy five stars
December 1, 2023
Jim rohn my favourite speaker with his way with words i can listen to him for hours now the best of his quotes collected in this book
I enjoyed it.
Some of the quotes i liked
Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Resolve says, “I will.” The man says, “I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.”
There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It’s all available. All you have to do is go to the library. But would you believe that only three percent of the people in America have a library card. Wow, they must be expensive! No, they’re free. And there’s probably a library in every neighborhood. Only three percent!
Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.
,
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.
It isn’t what the book costs; it’s what it will cost if you don’t read it.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Whether you stay six weeks, six months, or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
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.
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not for the time.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say, “If I can, I will.”
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.
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental “I should” list.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
Learn to express, not impress
s not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don’t need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, “Follow me.” Now that’s brief He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn’t have to say.
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.
If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
Don’t mistake courtesy for consent.
It’s so easy to make a mistake in language if you aren’t careful. What if you meant to say, “What’s troubling you?” and what you actually said was, “What’s wrong with you?”
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
Be careful of using inside lingo on the outside world.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
The more you know, the less you need to say.
Don’t be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” That’s so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way—not on the work.
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a “must” and a “want.”
The best motivation is self motivation. 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.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
All disciplines affect each other Mistakenly the man says, “This is the only area where I let down.” Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experiences and invest them in the future.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will be being frustrated by it.
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and the weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won’t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your garden. You’ve got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
I used to say, “Things cost too much.” Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, “The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.” That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t “it” — the problem was “me!”
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
remember saying to my mentor, “If I had more money, I would have a better plan.” He quickly responded, “I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.” You see, it’s not the amount that counts; it’s the plan that counts.
Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.
It is better to be a lender than a spender.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
Somebody says, “Well, I can’t be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself” Well, then you will always be poor.
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
When somebody shares, everybody wins.
The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short term obstacles.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
Some people are disturbed by those tough days because all they have is the days. They haven’t designed or described or defined the future.
It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.
You cannot base your life on what the government does or how your tax dollars are being spent. You’ve got to vote well, and then chart your own course; vote well, and then take charge of your own life.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.
Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and the body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and the spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.
Take good care of your body. Its the only place you have to live.
If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
Ideas can be life changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Ideas are information taking shape.
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.
One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration.
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That’s called doing your homework.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
What you don’t know will hurt you.
The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.
There is an ancient script that says, “He that wishes to be ignorant, let him he ignorant.” But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
“No” puts distance between you and the wrong influences.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
Be a collector of good ideas, but don’t trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.
There are three things to leave behind: your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!
Don’t use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak, be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy, be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve, not need.
Good people are found, not changed. Recently, I read a headline that said, “We don’t teach our people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.” Wow! What a clever short cut.
Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
In leadership we teach: Don’t send your ducks to eagle school because it won’t help. Duck finishes eagle school, sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.
Start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don’t waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Lead the way by personal example and by personal philosophy.
Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, “Liars shouldn’t lie.” What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That’s why we call them liars — they lie! What else would you expect them to do?
When dealing with people, I generally take the obvious approach. When someone says, “This always happens to me and that always happens to me. Why do these things always happen to me?” I simply say, “Beats me. I don’t know. All I know is that those kinds of things seem to happen to people like you.”
We could all use a little coaching. When you’re playing the game, it’s hard to think of everything.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Some people have learned to earn well but they haven’t learned to live well.
Lifestyle is not an amount; it’s a practice.
I enjoyed it.
Some of the quotes i liked
Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Resolve says, “I will.” The man says, “I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.”
There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It’s all available. All you have to do is go to the library. But would you believe that only three percent of the people in America have a library card. Wow, they must be expensive! No, they’re free. And there’s probably a library in every neighborhood. Only three percent!
Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.
,
Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.
It isn’t what the book costs; it’s what it will cost if you don’t read it.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Whether you stay six weeks, six months, or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
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.
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not for the time.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
used to say, “I sure hope things will change.” Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.
Don’t say, “If I could, I would.” Say, “If I can, I will.”
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.
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental “I should” list.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight
Learn to express, not impress
s not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don’t need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, “Follow me.” Now that’s brief He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn’t have to say.
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.
If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.
Don’t mistake courtesy for consent.
It’s so easy to make a mistake in language if you aren’t careful. What if you meant to say, “What’s troubling you?” and what you actually said was, “What’s wrong with you?”
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
Be careful of using inside lingo on the outside world.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
The more you know, the less you need to say.
Don’t be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” That’s so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way—not on the work.
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a “must” and a “want.”
The best motivation is self motivation. 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.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
All disciplines affect each other Mistakenly the man says, “This is the only area where I let down.” Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.
Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experiences and invest them in the future.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will be being frustrated by it.
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and the weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won’t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your garden. You’ve got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
I used to say, “Things cost too much.” Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, “The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.” That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t “it” — the problem was “me!”
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
remember saying to my mentor, “If I had more money, I would have a better plan.” He quickly responded, “I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.” You see, it’s not the amount that counts; it’s the plan that counts.
Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.
It is better to be a lender than a spender.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
Somebody says, “Well, I can’t be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself” Well, then you will always be poor.
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
When somebody shares, everybody wins.
The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short term obstacles.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
Some people are disturbed by those tough days because all they have is the days. They haven’t designed or described or defined the future.
It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.
You cannot base your life on what the government does or how your tax dollars are being spent. You’ve got to vote well, and then chart your own course; vote well, and then take charge of your own life.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.
Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and the body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and the spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.
Take good care of your body. Its the only place you have to live.
If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
Ideas can be life changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Ideas are information taking shape.
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.
One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration.
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That’s called doing your homework.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
What you don’t know will hurt you.
The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.
There is an ancient script that says, “He that wishes to be ignorant, let him he ignorant.” But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
“No” puts distance between you and the wrong influences.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
Be a collector of good ideas, but don’t trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.
There are three things to leave behind: your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!
Don’t use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak, be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy, be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve, not need.
Good people are found, not changed. Recently, I read a headline that said, “We don’t teach our people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.” Wow! What a clever short cut.
Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
In leadership we teach: Don’t send your ducks to eagle school because it won’t help. Duck finishes eagle school, sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.
Start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don’t waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Lead the way by personal example and by personal philosophy.
Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, “Liars shouldn’t lie.” What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That’s why we call them liars — they lie! What else would you expect them to do?
When dealing with people, I generally take the obvious approach. When someone says, “This always happens to me and that always happens to me. Why do these things always happen to me?” I simply say, “Beats me. I don’t know. All I know is that those kinds of things seem to happen to people like you.”
We could all use a little coaching. When you’re playing the game, it’s hard to think of everything.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Some people have learned to earn well but they haven’t learned to live well.
Lifestyle is not an amount; it’s a practice.
October 31, 2019
This pocketbook is full of wisdom collected by Rohn over 40 years during his career advocating self-discipline. It was an awesome investment at $6. Reading a few pages in the morning is a great way to self-motivate and prime your day. Some of my favourites are here:
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
"Learn how to turn frustration into fascination."
"What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know."
"Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals."
"What am I becoming?"
"But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying."
"Values were meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value."
"You must translate wisdom and strong feelings into labour."
"The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and reap without apology if the amounts are big."
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
"Learn how to turn frustration into fascination."
"What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know."
"Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals."
"What am I becoming?"
"But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying."
"Values were meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value."
"You must translate wisdom and strong feelings into labour."
"The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and reap without apology if the amounts are big."
October 13, 2018
Jim Rohn had this incredible way of expressing himself that resonates with just about anyone. You probably heard these ideas and principles X times before, but absorbing them via Jim Rohn's angle is an effective way to get genuinely touched and inspired.
January 8, 2018
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February 7, 2020
Ordered a book directly from Amazon after finding out this exist. I am currently overseas so I can't wait to start flipping the pages of this book when I will arrive back home.
May 26, 2020
A great find. Glad I had a chance to read this. Who doesn't love Jim Rohn's quotes?
April 4, 2024
I’m not sure is Rohn is the originator of many of these quotes, but if so, definitely upgrade to a 5. I’ll do some research and listen to his speeches.
At the end of the day I find the Richest Man of Babylon to be the most impactful book i’ve ever read on understanding the mechanisms to become wealthy, so this books falls short of helping someone advance on that path. But, if this book doesn’t have the gaining of wealth as it’s objective and instead the journey towards a life one can be proud, I think this has some good classic wisdom in it that people should just leave to the 2000s. I may have even been reared with some of these quotes in mind, to which i’d be forever endeared to Rohn.
Takeaways
- read. Read. READ.
- don’t listen to people who aren’t where you want to be
- stop focusing on the amount you want and more on the sensation you want to feel
- don’t just sit with your ambition. Think a bit about the next step. If you don’t know the next steps, you need to ask someone. Connect to people that have answers to your questions. (I’ll add that if someone gives you answers you better do it!) at the end, do something to move you forward.
- try to learn from every experience, especially the bad ones
At the end of the day I find the Richest Man of Babylon to be the most impactful book i’ve ever read on understanding the mechanisms to become wealthy, so this books falls short of helping someone advance on that path. But, if this book doesn’t have the gaining of wealth as it’s objective and instead the journey towards a life one can be proud, I think this has some good classic wisdom in it that people should just leave to the 2000s. I may have even been reared with some of these quotes in mind, to which i’d be forever endeared to Rohn.
Takeaways
- read. Read. READ.
- don’t listen to people who aren’t where you want to be
- stop focusing on the amount you want and more on the sensation you want to feel
- don’t just sit with your ambition. Think a bit about the next step. If you don’t know the next steps, you need to ask someone. Connect to people that have answers to your questions. (I’ll add that if someone gives you answers you better do it!) at the end, do something to move you forward.
- try to learn from every experience, especially the bad ones
July 11, 2022
This is definitely among my favorites! I stumbled upon Jim Rohn while browsing YouTube one day and was inspired. The counsel he gives is enormously helpful! He veers away from the perspective, "The problem is everyone outside of me," and goes to work on "self."
Every line is aimed at improving myself. His life is an inspiration in and of itself: there was a time when he didn't have $2. Then, over time, as he received counsel from his mentor(s), he amassed a fortune. He then lost it [he talks about youthful decisions he made] and then regained it again! And before I go thinking it's about gaining a fortune, he often returns to the statement, "The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. ...Pity the man who inherits a million dollars and who isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful: if your income grew and you didn't."
For the longest time, I've strived to improve myself by listening to a multitude of speakers--individuals who became successful by implementing one or two good traits. Within "The Treasury of Quotes" you're introduced to all of the good traits.
Every line is aimed at improving myself. His life is an inspiration in and of itself: there was a time when he didn't have $2. Then, over time, as he received counsel from his mentor(s), he amassed a fortune. He then lost it [he talks about youthful decisions he made] and then regained it again! And before I go thinking it's about gaining a fortune, he often returns to the statement, "The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. ...Pity the man who inherits a million dollars and who isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful: if your income grew and you didn't."
For the longest time, I've strived to improve myself by listening to a multitude of speakers--individuals who became successful by implementing one or two good traits. Within "The Treasury of Quotes" you're introduced to all of the good traits.
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November 11, 2024This book is a must have for my library of real books! This will be the next one I order online. This is a great collection of Jim Rohn wisdom and this book is worthy of a 5 star review. 2 thumbs up! 👍😎
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December 22, 2021no rating cause I feel like this is not ratable?¿
definitely a book w a lot of wise quotes in it tho. I feel smart cause I read this
definitely a book w a lot of wise quotes in it tho. I feel smart cause I read this
February 5, 2022
Great philosophies of life by Jim Rohn. A must read for great insights
March 13, 2023
Great for inspiration
Enjoyed every second of this book.
Very inspirational and motivational.
I am looking forward to reading some more of his books in the near future
Enjoyed every second of this book.
Very inspirational and motivational.
I am looking forward to reading some more of his books in the near future
January 30, 2024
A nice summary of Jim Rohn's quotes. If you haven't read his other books, these quotes comprehensively summarize his philosophy.
November 13, 2024
This book of quotes is very like reading the book of Proverbs. Great info and words to live by.
May 17, 2022
"The Treasury of Quotes" by Jim Rohn seemed helpful for the content which relates to business and entrepreneurship. In this publication, Jim Rohn mentioned the common methods and channels that entrepreneurs and executives can apply for themselves in order to gain success and achieve effects. These common problems were covered from diverse aspects, hence business executives can apply depending on specific situations. Therefore, I think this publication makes an interesting and worthwhile reference for executives and entrepreneurs.
October 28, 2020
Excelente libro, para estudiar varias veces, para tenerlo para consulta.
La maravilla de poner 30 años de experiencia en una lectura de una hora. Una hora para darse el tiempo de reflexionar en cada enseñanza.
La maravilla de poner 30 años de experiencia en una lectura de una hora. Una hora para darse el tiempo de reflexionar en cada enseñanza.
July 24, 2022
exactly what it is
A book of quotes. Mind you they are very important. Lessons to be learnt here so I would recommend to anyone of all ages.
A book of quotes. Mind you they are very important. Lessons to be learnt here so I would recommend to anyone of all ages.
April 19, 2017
don't walk run to the bookstore now
Want to read
July 24, 2018Rjur
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