Top 40 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Ringer

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.

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

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

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

Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.

Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.

A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

When the ball is on the one-yard line, never risk a fumble. Carry it over yourself.

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

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

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.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

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!

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it's too late. Too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to paper money and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you're one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

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

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.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

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

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.