The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle Quotes

“We don't get what we need. We get what we search for".”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“...Evil always rushes in to fill the void created by the absence of good. The only thing that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing, and unfortunately, that is what too many good people choose to do...”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“It is better to aim the spear at the moon and strike the eagle, than to aim at the eagle and strike only a rock.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“Today brings to each of us 1,440 minutes; 86,400 ticks of the clock. Both the poor and the wealthy have the same 24 hours of opportunity. Time favors no one.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“There is very little difference between someone who cannot read and someone who will not read. The result of either is ignorance. Those who are serious seekers of personal development must remove the self-imposed limitations they have placed on their reading skills and their reading habits.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion. Wishes are an anesthetic to be used by the unambitious, a narcotic that dulls their awareness of their own desperate condition.

It is possible to plan our future so carefully and so clearly that when the plan is complete, we can become so inspired by it, it will become our "magnificent obsession."

The challenge is to let this obsession fuel the fire that heats our talent and our skills to the boiling point so that we are propelled into a whole new future.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“The promise of the future is not free. There is a price to be paid for any future reward. The price the future exacts from us involves discipline, labor, consistency and a burning desire to make the future better than either the past or the present. Those are the price tags of progress, but the price gets easy when the promise becomes clear. When the end becomes attractive, we become keenly interested in the means. We must see and want the promise with an insatiable desire, or the price it requires will overcome our wishes, and we will fall back to where we once were.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“The fault… is not in the stars, but in ourselves.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“Those whose efforts have produced a poor result often have a lengthy list of reasons to justify their poor progress. To them the items on the list are not excuses, they are reasons. They blame the company or they blame the boss. They blame taxes. They blame their parents or the teachers or the system. Sometimes they even blame the country.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“That is how life gets better—when we get better. We cannot have more without first becoming more. That is one of the basics.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“Everything we have in life—the tangibles as well as the intangibles—is a direct result of who we are. The answer to the good life lies in becoming more than we currently are so that we can attract more than we currently have.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“If we are not satisfied with what we have achieved at this point in our lives, then now is the time to fix the future. Unless we change how we are right now, what we have will always be about the same. The same seed sown by the same sower will inevitably produce the same harvest.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“If our past labors have produced a poor harvest, there is nothing we can do about it. We cannot alter the past. We cannot ask nature to make an exception to the rules no matter how hungry we are. Nor will nature permit us to ask the soil for an advance. The only thing we can do is to prepare for the inevitable arrival of another spring—another opportunity—and then plant, nourish, and tend our new crop as diligently as possible, remembering the painful consequences of our past neglect. In remembering the consequences, however, we must not allow ourselves to be overcome by them. Their lessons must serve us, not overwhelm us.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“a growing awareness and a positive attitude are not enough in and of themselves. What we know and how we feel merely determine our potential for achievement. Whether we actually achieve our goals is ultimately determined by our activity.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle

“As we become serious about designing the future in advance, we derive an immediate emotional benefit. The future is exciting! The more clearly we see the future and the more keenly we sense its promise, the more positive our attitude becomes that we can and will achieve our dreams.

It is this new attitude that will provide us with renewed ambition for progress and the faith that we really can move mountains.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“Whenever our lives are turned upside down, we have only to find something worth doing to change things for the better. We must do it with wavering confidence in the beginning. We may have to do it despite the presence of fear. But inevitably, our doubts and fears will step aside when our unyielding commitment to take action comes into the picture. The results produced by these initial acts of faith will become the foundation upon which to build a whole new life.

Results are more than just an objective; they are the seeds of future joy and prosperity. Every result we experience, no matter how small, is another certain step taken toward a life of achievement.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“Only through the consistent application of discipline can we prevent the negative tendencies of life from destroying our plans. With the passing of a little time and the attainment of a little success, we can become careless. That is why those in pursuit of the good life must develop a new sense of appreciation for discipline, and become aware of all that they can do and all that they can have. What each of us can do is remarkable. People can do the most amazing things, once they have made the decision to tackle the disciplines that lead to a new philosophy, a new attitude, and a new and intense level of activity. What people will do, however, is sometimes disappointing.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“Major objectives are the unseen force that pulls us into the future. Through our daily activity and discipline we provide the push to propel us toward success. But it is the dream of the future achievement of our objectives that pulls us along day after day and pulls us through the major obstacles we encounter along the way. The exciting thing about this process is that the more we push, the more the future begins to pull. As we demonstrate our unwavering determination to conquer our limitations, increase our intelligence and achieve our objective, that still, small voice within us begins to speak its special and promising message adding to the pull of the future. As we listen carefully to this voice, and respond instinctively to its urgings, the pull becomes stronger and the future more certain.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“But the most important part of planning and goal-setting is to see in our "mind's eye" the major objective that we are pursuing. This is the "magnificent obsession" that we discussed earlier. This is the very nerve center of our ambition. This is what drives us.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“Having well-defined goals is an essential art of any life plan. These goals should be recorded in writing, and should reflect both short-term and long-range planning. Short-term goals serve as landmarks along the journey. They are the small stepping stones that lead to the achievement of our long-term fortune and help us to stay on track over a long period of time.

Long-range goals serve as milestones. They are the points of achievement along the way that give us cause to celebrate the fruits of our efforts.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“We must become wise enough to use today to plan tomorrow. We must design the future, not just dream about it. If we discipline ourselves to put intelligence into our plans, we will put fortune into our future.

Our journey toward success cannot be like a Sunday drive. We need to select a specific destination. We also need to anticipate the obstacles and the risks and be prepared to respond to them whenever they appear.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“Many of those in search of success and happiness are already working hard, but they just do not seem to be getting anywhere. The problem is that in order to produce the desired results we must put intelligence as well as intensity into our activity. Action without intelligence can be destructive. But we must not spend too much time in the process of acquiring intelligence. All things must be in their rightful ratio. It is so easy to mistake motion for progress and movement for achievement. That is why activity must be deliberately planned, carefully refined and consistently executed.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success

“Failure’s most dangerous attribute is its subtlety.”
― Jim Rohn, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle