Robbins Quotes

#1. In a voice that sounds the way a can of cheap dog food would sound if a can of cheap dog food could speak, he tells you you are looking well.

Tom Robbins

#2. THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.

Tom Robbins

#3. The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.

Tony Robbins

#4. Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

Tony Robbins

#5. The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.

Tony Robbins

#6. Success without fulfillment is failure

Tony Robbins

#7. What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

Tony Robbins

#8. There is no death. There are only different levels of life.

Tom Robbins

#9. And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Tom Robbins

#10. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Tom Robbins

#11. You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.

Tony Robbins

#12. Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control
yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

Tony Robbins

#13. If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

Tony Robbins

#14. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#15. When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling.

Tony Robbins

#16. Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Tony Robbins

#17. There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

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

Tony Robbins

#19. In three long strides, Chris was leaning into me, pressing my back up against the building His palms flattened against mine, our fingers interlocking above my head. "Let me uncomplicate things for you." He closed his eyes, leaned his head forward, and pressed his lips against mine.

Andrea K. Robbins

#20. If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

Tim Robbins

#21. He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

Tom Robbins

#22. In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.

Tom Robbins

#23. If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

Tom Robbins

#24. It's not can you, it's will you

Tony Robbins

#25. Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Tony Robbins

#26. The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.

Tony Robbins

#27. I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

Tom Robbins

#28. When you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

Anthony Robbins

#29. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us

Tony Robbins

#30. Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.

Tony Robbins

#31. I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.

Andrew Buchan

#32. Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.

Tom Robbins

#33. Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Tom Robbins

#34. 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?

Tony Robbins

#35. Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

Tom Robbins

#36. What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

Tom Robbins

#37. 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.

Tony Robbins

#38. A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.

Tony Robbins

#39. People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

Anthony Robbins

#40. The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Tom Robbins

#41. The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

#42. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."

Tony Robbins

#43. To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.

Tony Robbins

#44. Although surely she realized that space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.

Tom Robbins

#45. The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.

Tom Robbins

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

Tony Robbins

#47. His first - and worst - mistake was blindly doing what he was told to do. Without questioning their methods or their motives, he allowed politicians to make the decisions that led to his early demise.

Tom Robbins

#48. There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

Tim Robbins

#49. Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

Tom Robbins

#50. There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger.

Tom Robbins

#51. So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.

Tony Robbins

#52. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

Tom Robbins

#53. I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

Tony Robbins

#54. Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs ... by their perception.

Tony Robbins

#55. At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?

Tony Robbins

#56. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Tom Robbins

#57. The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

Tony Robbins

#58. If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Tony Robbins

#59. Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Tom Robbins

#60. The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.

Tom Robbins

#61. Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.

Alexandra Robbins

#62. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Tom Robbins

#63. One decision can change your life forever.

Tony Robbins

#64. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Tom Robbins

#65. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

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

Tony Robbins

#67. 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.

Anthony Robbins

#68. America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Tom Robbins

#69. He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

#70. Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.

Tony Robbins

#71. Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.

Tony Robbins

#72. I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

Tony Robbins

#73. Must look into the botanical background of substance known as hashish, I jotted in my journal, writing by the light of candles that grew incessantly jewel-like even as protean wafts of incense approached my snout like platters of ripe fruits borne on the back of Nubian pages.

Tom Robbins

#74. The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself

Anthony Robbins

#75. Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

Tom Robbins

#76. If I'm committed, there is always a way.

Tony Robbins

#77. The kingdom of formal ideas will always be a weak neighbor to the kingdom of thrills

Tom Robbins

#78. People are not their behaviors.

Tony Robbins

#79. I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Tom Robbins

#80. Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

Tony Robbins

#81. When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

Tom Robbins

#82. When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

Tim Robbins

#83. At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.

Tom Robbins

#84. The wealthiest person on earth is the one who appreciates

Tony Robbins

#85. There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Dax Shepard

#86. Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

Tony Robbins

#87. His story wasn't "I'll never read," it was "I have dyslexia, so I have to work harder to make everything happen - and I will.

Anthony Robbins

#88. Like women in general, like Aries women in particular, like redheaded Aries women in greater particular, she loathed to be misunderstood. Injustice against others outraged her, injustice against herself set her to boiling like brimstone soup.

Tom Robbins

#89. When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.

Royal Robbins

#90. People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.

Tom Robbins

#91. Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.

Tony Robbins

#92. When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

Tony Robbins

#93. If you can't, then you must!

Tony Robbins

#94. We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

Tony Robbins

#95. Death is not a resident of the house. 'Death' is merely the name we give to certain rooms of the house, rooms that we, the so-called 'living,' fear for the simple reason that we have not passed through them.

Tom Robbins

#96. Family trouble was the worst kind. Some families ran their own little versions of the Middle East.

Tom Robbins

#97. A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

Tony Robbins

#98. I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Anthony Robbins

#99. Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.

Tony Robbins

#100. Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Alexandra Robbins