Tony Robbins Quotations

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

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.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

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.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

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.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

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

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.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

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

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

There's always a way - if you're committed.

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

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

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

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!

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

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

Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

The third element of success is your state: You must replace a default state of pessimism or anger with one of determination, of will, of generosity, of curiosity, of gratitude. The more we can put ourselves in such beautiful states rather than suffering states, the more they become habits of being and we end up making better decisions.

The one thing that separates winners from the losers, is , winners take action.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

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

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

Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

The "I've tried everything" story ensures failure. You must create an empowering story that recognizes that everyone has failed a lot but successful people have found a way to rebound until they succeed.

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.

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.

Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.

The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."

Life happens not to me but for me

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

There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

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.

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

If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.

Success without happiness is failure.

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

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.

Activity without purpose is the drain of your life

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

Emotion is changed by motion.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.

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

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.

Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control.

The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.

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

As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

Focus on execution rather than just the idea.