Top 884 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Robbins - Page 4

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head

Your destiny is determined by your decisions.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal.

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

Love is the oxygen of the soul

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS

Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.

Change is automatic, Progress is Not!

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.

If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.

Knowledge is potential; action is power.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to bring something to the table through his or her vision that is not being provided by others - a special way of meeting needs, caring for others, treating patients, or marketing. An entrepreneur must have enormous faith. Risk-taking is critical to the development of an enterprise. You will not take risks unless you have the faith to do so.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

You've got to be in a determined state in order to succeed.

Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?

You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

The how will show up after the commitment to the what.

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person

I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

If you don't make a decision about how you are going to live, then you have already made a decision, haven't you?

Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.

How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If we gather a set of strong enough reasons to change, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years.

If you don't educate yourself, this is an area of your life that it is a game.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.