Jim Rohn

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

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

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"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."

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."

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

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."

"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."

"Labor gives birth to ideas."

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."

"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."

"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."