Rory Vaden Quotes

Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.

Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.

You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.

One of the biggest ways we lose time is not knowing where we’re going next.

Creating the next level of results requires the next level of thinking.

Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.

The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.

Do things you don't want to do because it is the shortest, most guaranteed path to success: what you want in your life. It's not about getting a certain amount of money or a certain type of house, but what you want your life to look like.

Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are.

Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.

Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

Let go of who's right and focus on what's right

Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it?

Success means doing things you don't want to do.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

Time is not money. Time is worth way more than money.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.