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54 Joe Rogan Quotes That Will Motivate You to Greatness
Joe Rogan is a stand-up comedian, a figure in the MMA space, and former host of Fear Factor. But Rogan is more recognized his famous podcast The Joe Rogan Experience which is at the top of many iTunes charts. Each week, Joe Rogan sits down with a public figure to have a raw conversation to discuss their story, passions, and life in general. These people range from actors & scientists, to controversial figures in the news. Rogan is well known for dropping knowledge bombs in his show and is respected & looked up to by people in a variety of spaces as a motivational & inspirational figure.
Here are some of Joe Rogan’s best quotes:
1. “I love a success story, but even more than a success story; I like a dude who fucks his life up and gets his life together again story.” – Joe Rogan
2. “That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.” – Joe Rogan
3. “Reality really is a theatre. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.” – Joe Rogan
4. “Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.” – Joe Rogan
5. “The universe rewards calculated risk and passion.” – Joe Rogan
6. “If you can control what you eat, you can control all other aspects of your life.” – Joe Rogan
7. “Here’s the craziest thing about life, this is the thing that nobody really considers; you know as much about what life is all about as anybody who’s ever lived, ever. That’s the craziest thing about us. We’re all just kinda wandering through this going “‘You know what you’re doing?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Oh, I do too. I know what I’m doing.’ ‘Okay. Good, then.’” But really no one has a clue.” – Joe Rogan
8. “Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something…Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.” – Joe Rogan
9. “If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?” – Joe Rogan
10. “When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.” – Joe Rogan
11. “There’s a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results in the physical form.” – Joe Rogan
12. “So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.” – Joe Rogan
13. “Once you understand what excellence is all about…you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline.” – Joe Rogan
14. “There’s only one way to get good at anything; you surround yourself with the bad motherfuckers who are doing exactly you do and you forced yourself to keep up and inspire each other.” – Joe Rogan
15. “Life is strange. You keep moving and keep moving. Before you know it, you look back and thing, ‘What was that?’” – Joe Rogan
16. “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.” – Joe Rogan
17. “Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.” – Joe Rogan
18. “I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you. That can be an awesome and motivating force that can improve your life if you choose to be inspired and not jealous. One has no benefit whatsoever, the other is an incredible resource for creating momentum and improvement.” – Joe Rogan
19. “To really appreciate life you got to know you’re going to die.” – Joe Rogan
20. “Live your life like you’re the hero in your own movie.” – Joe Rogan
21. “People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.” – Joe Rogan
22. “I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.” – Joe Rogan
23. “I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them – the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.” – Joe Rogan
24. “One of the most fascinating lessons I’ve absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.” – Joe Rogan
25. “The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don’t even realize it.” – Joe Rogan
26. “The key to happiness doesn’t lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel and the way they make us feel.” – Joe Rogan
27. “I’m obsessed to extreme winners because I think there’s a madness to it. I truly believe that in order to truly be great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.” – Joe Rogan
28. “There’s a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.” – Joe Rogan
29. “The quicker we all realize that we’ve been taught how to live life by the people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn’t value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity.” – Joe Rogan
30. “People for the most part can smell lies.” – Joe Rogan
31. “Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now more than ever.” – Joe Rogan
32. “We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.” – Joe Rogan
33. “Greatness and madness are next door neighbors and they often borrow each other’s sugar.” – Joe Rogan
34. “Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.” – Joe Rogan
35. “In all my travelings, all my life adventures; I have to say I still don’t know what life is, absolutely no clue, and it is a subject that is constantly on my mind. One thing I do know for a fact is that the nicer we are to our fellow human beings, the nicer the universe is to us.” – Joe Rogan
36. “Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow…We know that inherently that feels great.” – Joe Rogan
37. “Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.” – Joe Rogan
38. “You can’t measure what’s inside a man’s heart.” – Joe Rogan
39. “I truly believe that in order to truly be great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.” – Joe Rogan
40. “It’s very important to help people figure out how to manage life, to help people figure out how to think, help inspire them, help show them what can be gained from setting goals and achieving them and that excellent feeling – and that becomes contagious.” – Joe Rogan
41. “Write down things you want to improve. Write down things you won’t tolerate from yourself. Write down things you never want to see yourself do again.” – Joe Rogan
42. “Live your life like there is a documentary crew following you around and you are analysing your own behavior.” – Joe Rogan
43. “One thing I do know for a fact is that the nicer we are to our fellow human beings, the nicer the universe is to us.” – Joe Rogan
44. “The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don’t work out.” – Joe Rogan
45. “Treat everyone as if they were you. If we really are one, then I am you and you are me.” – Joe Rogan
46. “It’s very possible that everybody is exactly the same at the core.” – Joe Rogan
47. “100% of all haters in the world are unrealised potential.” – Joe Rogan
48. “Pretend that your life was a movie and it started now, what would the hero do? What would the person that you respect do? What would the person that you admire, and inspires you do? Do that.” – Joe Rogan
49. “If things aren’t going the way you want them to go, then do something about it. Quit talking about your problems and go out and do something to fix them.” – Joe Rogan
50. “All the time that you spend complaining, you could instead be hustling. You could be chasing your dream. You could be figuring out what you’re doing wrong and improving your life.” – Joe Rogan
51. “Your attitude has a giant effect not just on your life, but on other peoples lives around you.” – Joe Rogan
52. “Get better at whatever you’re doing. So what if you suck at it now. Everybody sucks at everything when they start. But if you love it, and don’t lie to yourself, then get better at it.” – Joe Rogan
53. “Do things that are difficult. It’s very important to struggle. You don’t get to know yourself without struggle. You don’t know who you are until you get tested.” – Joe Rogan
54. “Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven.” – Joe Rogan