Tony Robbins Quotes 7

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 ye
ars ago, I tell them that absolutely the most
important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the thi
ngs I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolera
te, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

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

Making a true decision means committing yourself to achieving a result and th

en cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

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

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

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

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

The past does not equal the future.

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 w
hat you deserve.

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

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 reas
on we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving go
als 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.

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

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we chang

e? 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 yo
u 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.

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

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

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

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of hav
ing pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you re in control of your life. If
you don t, life controls you.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with who
m you want, as much as you want.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Repetition is the mother of all skill.

If we link massive pain to any behavior or emotional pattern, we will avoid i

ndulging in it at all costs. We can use this understanding to harness the force
of pain and pleasure to change virtually anything in our lives.

We re often seduced into believing that events control our lives and that our e
nvironment 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
.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experienc
e something as real, even if it hasn t occurred yet.

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

The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are alr
eady succeeding.

All changes are created in a moment. It s just that most of us wait until certa
in things happen before we finally decide to make a shift.

To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can b
ear any how. I ve found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 perce
nt 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 pattern or emotion or behavior that is continually reinforced will become
an automatic and conditioned response. Anything we fail to reinforce will event
ually dissipate.

We must remember that all decision making comes down to values clarification.

You could be winning and feel like you re losing because the scorecard you re usi
ng is unfair.

At the base of every emotional upset you ve ever had with another human being i
s a rules upset. Somebody did something, or failed to do something, that violate
d one of our rules about what they must or should do So, if you ever feel angry or
upset with someone, remember it s your rules that are upsetting you, not their be
havior.