Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Jim Rohn Quotes

Creativity Expression Perception There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Commitment Growth Patience Perseverance Responsibility Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Perseverance Resilience Self-Improvement Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Achievement Growth Motivation Self-Development Values 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.

Change Character Identity Personal Development Responsibility 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.

Change Courage Decision Making Determination Progress 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.

Acceptance Maturity Resilience Self-awareness Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Construction Growth Impact Personal Growth Self-Development Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Communication Confidence Impact Preparation Self-Improvement 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.

Goals Growth Perseverance Planning Self-Improvement If 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.

Honesty Humility Integrity Simplicity Surprise Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Change Growth Mindset Perseverance Progress You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Design Happiness Mindfulness Present Moment Well-being Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Action Change Empowerment Motivation If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Courage Determination Perseverance Regret Self-awareness The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Asking and Receiving Humor and Perspective Preparation and Resources Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Focus Generosity Mindfulness Presence Relationships Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Financial Independence Heritage Opportunity Society Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Fiction Human Nature Literature Self-Expression Truth The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Awareness Communication Knowledge Learning Understanding Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Improvement Leadership Motivation Success Support A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Creativity Ideas Innovation Productivity Work Ethic Labor gives birth to ideas.

Art Expression Imagination Literature Philosophy A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Choices Discipline Growth Pain Regret We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Determination Focus Goal Setting Motivation Perseverance When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Discipline Effort Reward For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Education Learning Motivation Self-Improvement Success Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Autonomy Independence Personal Responsibility Planning Self-Determination 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.

Growth Purpose Self-Development Transformation Values The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Goal Setting Progress Time Management Make measurable progress in reasonable time.