Tony Robbins Quotes

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

"Repetition is the mother of all skill."

"The past does not equal the future."

"Whatever happens, take responsibility."

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."

"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."

"If you question anything enough, you'll begin to doubt it."

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

"Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything."

"Nothing in life has any real meaning except the meaning you give it."

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

"The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals."

"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"

"You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair."

"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives."

"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny."

"In life, never spend more than 10% of your time on the problem and spend at least 90% of your time on the solution."

"Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time."

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

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

"Making a true decision means committing yourself to achieving a result and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

"If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve."

"Any pattern or emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate."

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you."

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives."

"We're often seduced into believing that events control our lives and that our environment has shaped who we are today. No greater lie was ever told. It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."

"To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear 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, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years."

"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. 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."

"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment."

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com