California born Tony Robbins is one of the best known motivational speakers the world over. Tony Robbins quotes from his interviews and seminars has encouraged thousands, if not millions of entrepreneurs to achieve high levels of personal greatness.
15 Tony Robbins Quotes
"Live life fully while you are here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process."Tony Robbins
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Naturally curious as a child, his mother needed to read encyclopedias to find the answers to Tony’s numerous questions about life and how things worked.
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."Tony Robbins
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Full of praise and encouragement for her eldest son, Tony received plenty of motivation to achieve his goals right from an early age.
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."Tony Robbins
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"What people CAN do is very different from what people WILL do."Tony Robbins
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His parents divorced when he was six and Tony took up the surname Robbins from his mother’s third husband. Obviously affected by changing family circumstances, Tony made the decision to help others sort out problems in their lives, rather than dwell on his own.
"It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."Tony Robbins
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In fact while at school, he was known as the problem solver, the person kids would turn to when they needed their issues sorted out.
"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."Tony Robbins
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Tony’s family was not well off, so when he left home permanently after a fight with his mother, he got a job as a janitor in a bank to pay his way while meeting his goal of graduating from high school.
"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?"Tony Robbins
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After graduation he progressed to a job as a door-to-door salesman. It was one of his customers that encouraged him to attend a seminar by motivational speaker Jim Rohn. Immediately after attending, an impressed Tony approached Rohn and asked him for a job. Consequently he began promoting Rohn’s talks, books and tapes.
"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."Tony Robbins
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Tony Robbins Battled With Depression
Tony, under the guidance of his mentor Rohn, began his motivational speaking career in 1979 at the age of 19. He opened an office and was soon earning $10,000 a month. Tony soon found out that money did not meet all his needs and he started battling with depression.
"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives."Tony Robbins
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In 1981 his office foreclosed and Tony Robbins started comfort eating, consequently gaining 38 pounds and had feelings of hopelessness and loneliness. But a spur of the moment decision to take a run on the beach and assess his life, led Tony to a major turning point in his life.
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."Tony Robbins
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"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."Tony Robbins
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Rohn then introduced Tony Robbins to the creators of the Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP), which he credits as turning his life around. He then began incorporating NLP into his seminars.
Tony Robbins Quotes, The Firewalker Himself
In 1982 Tony began to use fire walking in his seminars to emphasize the point that the human mind is a powerful tool when facing challenges and adversities in life.
"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."Tony Robbins
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1989 saw the publishing of his number one best-selling book, ‘Ultimate Power.’ In his spirit of wanting to pass on his good fortune to others, he then created the Anthony Robbins Foundation.
Each Thanksgiving the foundation gives needy families a basket of food. This kind gesture is his way of paying forward from the time when his struggling family was also given some food during one of his childhood Thanksgivings.
"It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."Tony Robbins
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With appearances in 15 movies under his belt, including one is Shallow Hal where he plays himself and co-hosting ‘Oprah’s Lifeclass’ with Oprah Winfrey on her television network OWN, Tony can also claim TV stardom.
"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."Tony Robbins
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Tony Robbins quotes continue to inspire and motivate people from all over the world. With his teachings being the start of many a successful career or change in life circumstances, Tony Robbins can lay claim to being one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. After all, he put it well himself when he said,
"Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want."Tony Robbins
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