Rory Vaden Quotes

The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.

You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

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

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.

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

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

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

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.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

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

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

A lot of "successful" people are tragedies, because what they've accomplished aren't the things they wanted. Intentionally create the question "how" instead of accidentally relenting to the question of "should." If I'm not intentionally choosing a good attitude, I'm almost always unintentionally choosing a negative one.

Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

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

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

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

There is always an incredible amount of things vying for our attention at home. I'm not saying you should never do the laundry, or pay attention to the kids, but for most of us, we're not present to how much time we spend on those. Anything that wastes your time is a waste of money.