Anthony “Tony” Jay Robbins (b.1960,) born Anthony J. Mahavoric, is an American self-help author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is among America’s most successful motivational speakers. He was a protégé of the self-help lecturer Jim Rohn.
Robbins is celebrated for his self-help infomercials, seminars, and books, including Unlimited Power (1986) and Awaken the Giant Within (1991.) His seminars and instructional audiotapes supposedly generate more than $50 million in annual revenues.
Even though millions of Robbins’s followers claim that his techniques and his message of self-help enable them to lift themselves, Robbins has been criticized for his blatant materialism and his core message of wealth and success. Professional psychiatrists are especially critical that Robbins’s “feel-good-now” discourse only preaches a quick fix.
Robbins’s other popular books include Money: Master the Game (2014) and Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom (2017.)
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Commit to CANI!—Constant And Never-ending Improvement
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Self-improvement, Progress
All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? 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 you 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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Change, Belief
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
Topics: Success & Failure, Success, Achievement
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Goals
There’s always a way.
—Tony Robbins
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Information
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Being True to Yourself
There’s no abiding success without commitment.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Commitment
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.
—Tony Robbins
It’s not about success, it’s about progress.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Success, Progress
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 reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals 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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Goals
Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Success
Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Live, Reflection, People
It’s not “Can you?” It’s “Will you?!?”
—Tony Robbins
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
Topics: Success, Success & Failure
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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Belief
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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Concentration, Focus
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Goals
It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Potential, Possibilities
The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Communication
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
—Tony Robbins
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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Action, Regret, Remorse, Commitment, Disappointment
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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Action, Habits
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Difficulty, Character
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.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Decisions
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Pain
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Prophecy, Vision
If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Action, Determination
It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Knowledge
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
—Tony Robbins
Topics: Satisfaction
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