Tag: Jim Rohn

Living Quotes

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

You’re only here for a short visit. So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. – Walter Hagen

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – The Buddha

What’s done is done. – William Shakespeare

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Anonymous

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. – Brigitte Bardot

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feeling Lonely Quotes

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland

If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard

Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Doing Your Best Quotes

Posted on December 14, 2010December 14, 2010 by

# People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end.–Malcolm Kushner

# People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.–Warren Bennis

# A problem is a chance for you to do your best.–Duke Ellington

# A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.–Alistair Cooke

# The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.–Edgar W. Work

# Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world–making the most of one’s best.–Harry Emerson Fosdick

# The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

# The right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

# Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.–Mahatma Gandhi

# Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.–Les Brown

# Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.–Willis Whitney

# Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.–David Letterman

# Still this planet’s soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.–Goethe (Faust Part Two)

# The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

# There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.–Charles D. Gill

# There are no extraordinary men…just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.–Admiral Willian “Bull” Halsey

# There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can’t blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.–Jan Ashford

# There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.–Soren Kierkegaard

# There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.–Art Turock

# Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.–Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

# We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.–Anonymous

# We become what we do.–Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

# We do not have to be the best to be effective, but we do have to be at our best.–Bob Briner (Roaring Lambs)

# We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…–Ralph Waldo Emerson

# We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.–Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine – June 24, 2003)

# We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.–Mother Teresa

# We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.–Seneca

# Well done is better than well said.–Benjamin Franklin

# What I do today is important because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it.–Anonymous

# Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.–Charles Dickens

# When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”–Erma Bombeck

# When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.–Helen Keller (Out of the Dark)

# When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.–William Arthur Ward

# The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.–Edward Gibbon

# You can’t always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.–Anita Hill

# You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.–Eleanor Roosevelt

# You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.–Michael Jordan

# You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.–Marian Wright Edelman

Motivational Quotes

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

“Success is what you attract by the person you become” – Jim Rohn

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“To earn more, you must learn more.” – Brian Tracy

“Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.” – Christian D. Larson

“Your life only gets better, when you get better” – Brian Tracy

“The porr and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.” –Anonymous

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.” – Brian Tracy

“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard B. Sheridan

“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.” – Albert Camus

“It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with what you have.” – Unknown

“It matters not what person is born, but who they choose to be.” – Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time” – Napoleon Hill

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are.” – Talmud

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is dissapointment.” – William Arthur Ward

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Education Quotes #2

Posted on November 24, 2010 by

# “The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

# “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

# “Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” – Ambrose Bierce

# “Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.” – R.D. Clyde

# “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser

# “In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

# “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers

# “A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.” – James B. Stockdale

# “An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.” – Unknown

# “Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Henry Peter Broughan

# “It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne, A Doctor’s Creed

# “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” – J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

# “The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton

# “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

# “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.” – Cicero

# “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” – Anatole France

# “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates

# Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

# “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

# “Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – Sir William Haley

# “I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.” – Anne Sullivan

# “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

Character Quotes

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Unknown

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. – Thomas B Macaulay

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. – James D. Miles

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking. – Unknown

Most people say that it’s the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. – Elbert Hubbard

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character – Albert Einstein

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have – Unknown

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power – Abraham Lincoln

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. – Stephen Covey

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming. – Jim Rohn

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! – Theodore Roosevelt

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden

How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. – Roy L Smith

Beautiful Quotes

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

– “Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses” – Aaron Hill

– “Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage” – Richard Lovelace

– “Never look back unless you’re planning to go that way” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Music is what feelings sound like” – Unknown

– “It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop” – Confucius

– “Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it” – Joe Paterno

– “Time itself comes in drops” – William James

– “If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere” – Henry A. Kissinger

– “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.” – Ernest Hemingway

– “Either you run the day or the day runs you” – Jim Rohn

– “I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them” – Donald Norman

– “He who profits by a crime commits it” – Seneca

– “Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting” – Karl Wallenda

– “Listen to the sound of silence” – Paul Simon

– “There is no top. There are always further heights to reach” – Jascha Heifet

Progress Quotes

Posted on April 18, 2010April 18, 2010 by

– “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” – Albert Einstein

– “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama

– “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” – Ronald Reagan

– “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.” – Mohandas Gandhi

– “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi

– “Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.” – Mohandas Gandhi

– “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.” – Jim Rohn

– “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn

– “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn

– “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran

– “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

– “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy

– “The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” – John F. Kennedy

– “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” – C. S. Lewis

– “It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.” – Theodore Roosevelt