“Enjoy making decisions. You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person you stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you’ve been waiting for to fall into place. If you really want your life to be passionate, you need to live with this attitude of expectancy.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“One belief that I’ve developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don’t have to have a reason to feel good—you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in your 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. You need to set and live by these standards no matter what happens in your life.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear to limit us.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent, while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“your brain can’t tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Anytime you have difficulty making an important decision, you can be sure that it’s the result of being unclear about your values.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“most fears in life rarely come to fruition.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.” —THE BUDDHA”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“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.” —ANTHONY ROBBINS”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“In reality, at the time I was being incredibly negative and seeing things worse than they were. I was using my pessimism as a shield. It was my feeble attempt at protecting myself from the pain of failed expectations: I’d do anything to keep from being disappointed once again. But in adopting this pattern, this same barrier that kept me out of pain also kept me out of pleasure. It barred me from solutions and sealed me in a tomb of emotional death where one never experiences too much pain or too much pleasure, and where one continuously justifies one’s limited actions by stating they’re “just being realistic.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Any pattern of emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will eventually dissipate.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” —ANTHONY ROBBINS”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Changing an organization, a company, a country—or a world—begins with the simple step of changing yourself.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: 1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, 2) You are willing to take massive action, 3) You notice what’s working or not, and 4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional “storms.” How do they accomplish this? Most of them have a fundamental rule: In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution. Most important, don’t sweat the small stuff… and remember, it’s all small stuff!”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Realize that you may have misinterpreted the situation completely, that your anger about this person breaking your rules may be based on the fact that they don’t know what’s most important to you (even though you believe they should).”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.” —BORIS PASTERNAK”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“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. It can change your relationships, your working environment, your level of physical fitness, your income, and your emotional states. It can determine whether you’re happy or sad, whether you’re frustrated or excited, enslaved by circumstances, or expressing your freedom. It’s the source of change within an individual, a family, a community, a society, our world.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Leaders are those individuals who live by empowering beliefs and teach others to tap their full capabilities by shifting the beliefs that have been limiting them.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“God’s delays are not God’s denials.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
“Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.”
― Anthony Robbins, quote from Awaken The Giant Within
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