Jim Rohn
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Pretty soon you'll see me waving from the top or dead on the side because I ain't coming back.
The best definition I ever got from the word resolve came from a little junior high girl in Foster City, California, up north.
I'm talking to the junior high kids one day.
I love to ask kids definitions.
They come up with beauties.
I got to the word resolve and I asked, who can tell me what resolve means?
And I got several hands and they were all pretty good.
But the last one was the best.
Little girl, about three rows back.
She said, Mr. Rowland, Mr. Rowland, I think I know what resolve means.
I said, darling, what do you think it means?
She said, I think it means promising yourself you will never give up.
I said, that's it.
Webster, stand aside.
That is the definition.
Promise yourself you will never give up.
I asked the kids, how long should a baby try to learn how to walk?
How long?
How long would you give your average baby before you shut him off?
How long?