Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Rory Vaden

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The franchise model is great, because most people who are entrepreneurial want flexibility and time to do what they love. A lot home business entrepreneurs struggle because they have to do everything.