Quote

Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

Jim Rohn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Rohn
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 17
Died: 2009
Died: December 5
Author
Entrepreneur
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Yakima
Washington
Emanuel James Rohn
Must
Neighbor
Really
Difficulty
Love
Response
Neighbors
Life
Whose
Counts
Control
Difficulties
Since
Traffic
Learn
Boss
Cannot
Weather

More quotes by Jim Rohn

Image
The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.
Jim Rohn
Image
The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
Jim Rohn
Image
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.
Jim Rohn
Image
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.
Jim Rohn
Image
A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.
Jim Rohn
Image
For things to change for you, you've got to change!
Jim Rohn
Image
For what it will make of you to achieve it.
Jim Rohn
Image
Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your health. Life without balance can cost you your spirituality. Life without balance can cost you your wealth and your happiness. So find things to motivate you from all areas of life. Your success depends on it.
Jim Rohn
Image
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.
Jim Rohn
Image
. . . escape is easier than change.
Jim Rohn
Image
Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?
Jim Rohn
Image
We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.
Jim Rohn
Image
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills
Jim Rohn
Image
The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .
Jim Rohn
Image
No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test.
Jim Rohn
Image
Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.
Jim Rohn
Image
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.
Jim Rohn
Image
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.
Jim Rohn
Image
'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.
Jim Rohn
Image
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.
Jim Rohn