Ray Dalio Quotes

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

I'm a guy who tries to be successful in all that I do, and when you fall short, it hurts.

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.