Top 543 Quotes & Sayings by Robin Sharma - Page 7

Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

Every moment in front of a customer is a gorgeous opportunity to live your values.

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.

Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

Clarity breeds mastery.

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.

Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best.

Criticism is the price of ambition.

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

To breathe properly is to live properly.

The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

You were born awesome. Please don't die average.

There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.

You can really Lead Without a Title.

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.

The way you begin your day determines the way you will live your day.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

Dreaming is great, but thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or make you into the person you know in your heart you can be.

I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.

Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

He who serves the most, reaps the most, emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.