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Jim Rohn was a renowned American author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker. His works and speeches have inspired countless individuals to pursue personal growth and success. Born on September 17, 1930, he passed away on December 5, 2009.

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“Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.”

Thinking Want Values Virtue Sells Unhappy Aspiration Hung Judas Unhappy People

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“Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.”

Ifs Want Becoming Twins

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“If you want to have more, you must become more.”

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“Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.”

Ifs Want Persons

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“If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.”

Ifs Want Wanted Plans What You Want Buying Finding Yourself Architect

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“Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.”

People Ifs Want Found Changed Motivated Good People Can't Change

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“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.”

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“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

“I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do – if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.”

Ifs Way Want Needs Firsts Wells Motivational Found Can Do Study Labor Miracle Plant Miracle Of Life Daily Miracles

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“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”

“There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn”

People Knows Want Ends Know How Study Depends Roots Fruit

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“When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.”

Knows Way Want Life Inspirational Enough Motivational Success Inspiring Determination What You Want Persistence

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“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.”

Want Enough Bigs Process Goal Vision Becoming

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“I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.”

Thinking Want Mind Littles Sometimes Philosophy Found Simple Attitude Optimism Optimistic Vocabulary Twists

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“Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.”

Want Life Needs Happens Motivational Turns Opportunity Ability Talent Skills Performances Talents And Abilities

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“Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.”

Want Humans Motivational Differences Ability Greatness Enthusiasm Remarkable

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“Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'”

Want Success Asks Discipline Determine Engaged Destination

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“If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”

People Ifs Want Inspirational Persons Motivational Quality Leader Keys Personal Growth Exceptional Motivational Success Self Transformation Being A Better Person

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“If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Motivational

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“Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.”

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“As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.”

People Want Should Trying Leadership Leader

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“Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.”

Want Life Inspirational Needs Giving Life Is Desire Attention Discipline Equal Unique Entrepreneur Combination Self Motivation Self Discipline

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“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.”

Ifs Want Life Firsts Wells Motivational Able Education New Experiences Sponges

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“Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.”

People Want Needs Book Helping Motivational Reading Steps Successful Written Doors Mystery Journey Feet Higher Successful People Shelves Down The Road Better Future New Knowledge

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“Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.”

Want Inspirational Grateful What You Want Pursuit Be Grateful Grateful For What You Have

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“To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not”

Want Years Book Reading Next Self Improvement Improvement

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“If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.”

“Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.”

Want Long Can Do Do Whatever You Want

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“If you want to have more, you have to become more.”

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“If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?”

Ifs Want Country Shows Answers Plans Financial Currents Excited Superiors Why Not Show Me Lectures Financial Independence

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“We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.”

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“Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.”

People Ifs Knows Want Interest Steps Fascinated Fascination

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“Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and 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.”

“So when somebody asks me to make a decision about a situation, I don't offer a solution, I ask a question: What are our options? Give me the good, give me the bad, give me the pretty, give me the ugly, give me the impossible, give me the possible, give me the convenient, give me the inconvenient. Give me the options. All I want are options. And once I have all the options before me, then I comfortably and confidently make my decision.”

Want Giving Asks Decision Situation Impossible Offers Solutions Give Me Ugly Ask Me Decision Making Convenient Inconvenient

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“Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.”

Want Moments Character Turns Choices Given Results Who You Are Choices You Make Great Business

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“If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.”

Ifs Want Needs Book Growing Shelves Never Stop Learning Shelf Life

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“Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!”

Want Looks What You Want Pursuit Compromise Business Success Pursuit Of Perfection

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“What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.”

Want Soul Spirit Purpose Powerful Emotion Objects Stronger Details Intellect What You Want Magnet

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“What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.”

People Want Kind Mistake Influence Effects

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“For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.”

Want Needs News Get Better Where You Are Good News Need A Change You Need To Change

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“Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.”

Want Challenges What You Want Pursuit

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“One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.”

People Want Reason Disease Neglect Infection

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“Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.”

Want Kind Dream Force Creative Path Obstacles Your Dreams Projection Skip

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“The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Two Real Problem Three Inquiry Real Problems

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“Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.”

Want Persons Dream Fighting Goal Enemy Battle Pursuit Courageous Be Courageous Dreams And Goals

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“If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.”

Ifs Want Grows Growth Effects Equal Mirrors Get Better Our Relationship Correlation

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“If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.”

Ifs Want Wealth Study Healthy Wealthy Want To Be Happy

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“If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.”

Ifs Want Philosophy Errors Deep Thought Beginning Making Amends

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“If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.”

People Ifs Want Giving Millionaire Incompetent

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“The reason most people don’t accomplish much is because they don’t want much.”

People Want Reason Accomplish

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About the Author

Born: September 17, 1930
Died: December 5, 2009
Known for: Author
Quotes: 811

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