Tony Robbins Quotes

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy.

The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.

Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.

The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.

To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

I think you got to put your intimate relationship first. If you can keep your woman first and still love your children, you are going to create the healthiest environment.

Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

Expand your references, and you'll immediately expand your life.

If there is no action, you haven't really decided.

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 thin 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.

People are rewarded in public for what the practice for years in private.

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

For many people, food is a source of comfort, connection, and control.

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

There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.

If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.

The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Creating Change - The first step to creating any change is deciding what you do want so that you have something to move toward.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

Break through the bonds of your past.

To measure success with material things is failure!

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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.