Faculty of Architecture

Assignment 1

Title: Jim Rohn Quotes

Course Name: Personal Development Skills

Course Code: PDS 201

Student’s Name: Jana Jmaile

Instructor’s Name: Mrs. Arwa Haddad Helou

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2020

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I. Who is Jim Rohn

II. Jim Rohn Quotes

III. 3 Favorite Quotes

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 I. Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn was an American businessman, a self-made millionaire
before he turned 31, author, motivational speaker and even Anthony
Robbins's mentor. The author of dozens of books, Rohn was also a big
believer in the power of self-discipline to achieve one's ambitions at home
and in business.

II. Jim Rohn Quotes

1)  “Either run the day or the day runs you.”
2)  “Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
3) “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle
for the ordinary.”
4) “The more you know, the less you need to say.”
5) “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will
make you a fortune.”
6) “If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.”
7) “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.”
8) “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”
9) “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the
person you become.”
10) “Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the
receiving process.”
11) “The book you don't read won't help.”
12) “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of
discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”
13) “Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to
open the door is just one more good idea.”

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 14) “Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to
open the door is just one more good idea.”
15) “If you grow, everything grows for you.”
16) “Better understated than overstated. Let people be
surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than
you said.”
17) “A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into
images.”
18) “Words do two major things: They provide food for the
mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
19) “Words do two major things: They provide food for the
mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
20) “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you
pursue all that you want.”
21) “Discipline is the bridge between goals and
accomplishment.”
22) “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”
23) “You are the average of the five people you spend the
most time with.”
24) “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps
you going.”
25) “Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and
you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.”
26) “When you know what you want, and you want it bad
enough, you will find a way to get it.”
27) “The few who do are the envy of the many who only
watch.”
28) “All leaders are readers.”
29) “Living life in style also means living a life of balance.”
30) “Be fascinated instead of frustrated.”
31) “Finding is reserved for those who search.”
32) “The more you care, the stronger you can be.”

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III. 3 Favorite Quotes
 1. “Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
This quote is so meaningful because nothing in life comes in
an easy way it always has to be hard. But these hard
moments fuel us with power to face life’s problems-makes us
better. So, as Jim Rohn said, it’s not good to wish everything
was easier, we should wish to be stronger in order to find
everything easier. Otherwise, it will all look harder.

2. “If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a
tree.”
What I like about this quote, is that when you read it you feel
that
you’re the meant person. Because we typically nag every
single
day about many things in our lives. But when we sit with
ourselves and think deeply, we’ll find that we are the only ones
who are responsible about our life and problems, we are the
only ones who can solve them, we are the only ones who are
capable of changing our life from a to z. because we’re human
beings not solids.

3. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education

will make you a fortune.”

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 This quote has an important indirect meaning. For many of us
the word education means school and university, what Jim
Rohn was saying that is it much more than that. The typical
meaning of education we know leads to a normal life with
a normal job. While the other part of educations, which we
don’t
give an eye for, is what leads us to a healthy and successful
life
it’s what we call in others words “doing what we love”.
Because
self-education let us discover ourselves, what we love and
what
we don’t love, and doing what we love happily from the deep of
our heart is the only way for success.
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