Top 157 Quotes & Sayings by Robin S. Sharma - Page 2

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.

I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

The true leader - the genuine world-builder - lives to the point. Acutely concentrated on the few high priorities that will deliver the life of their greatest aspirations. At the end.

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.

If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.

If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.

Getting up early is one of the gifts I give myself.

Exercising will make you look better, feel stronger, and fill you with boundless energy. Staying fit will even make you happier.

I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.

Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.

The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.

If you're the most productive person in your community, it's definitely time to find a new community.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.

Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

You can inspire the world. Or you can be liked by all. You don't get to do both.

The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.

Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

The difference between a remarkable life and a mediocre one is not nearly as large as you might imagine. Nope, we all pretty much start out with the same raw stuff.

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.

Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one.

One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.

I move things forward fast. Just love speed.

I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.

The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.