Robert Ringer Quotes

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.