Tony Robbins is a renowned motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist. Born on February 29, 1960, in North Hollywood, California, he grew up in a chaotic and abusive home. He left home at 17 and worked as a janitor before finding success through his work with motivational speaker Jim Rohn. Robbins has written several best-selling books and has been featured in various media outlets. He is the founder of the Anthony Robbins Foundation and has been involved in various business ventures, including the Namale Resort & Spa. Robbins has been recognized for his work and has worked with numerous high-profile individuals, including U.S. presidents and celebrities.

Tony Robbins Quotes

1. “Where focus goes, energy flows.”
— Tony Robbins

2. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
— Tony Robbins

3. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
— Tony Robbins

4. “Repetition is the mother of skill.”
— Tony Robbins

5. “Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”
— Tony Robbins

6. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”
— Tony Robbins

7. “Whatever you focus on is what you get.”
— Tony Robbins

8. “Progress equals happiness.”
— Tony Robbins

9. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
— Tony Robbins

10. “Don’t limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.”
— Tony Robbins

11. “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”
— Tony Robbins

12. “If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.”
— Tony Robbins

13. “Live with passion!”
— Tony Robbins

14. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
— Tony Robbins

15. “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
— Tony Robbins

16. “Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.”
— Tony Robbins

17. “The secret to living is giving.”
— Tony Robbins

18. “People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.”
— Tony Robbins

19. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
— Tony Robbins

20. “Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”
— Tony Robbins

21. “If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”
— Tony Robbins

22. “Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
— Tony Robbins

23. “It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”
— Tony Robbins

24. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
— Tony Robbins

25. “Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”
— Tony Robbins

26. “Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.”
— Tony Robbins

27. “Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?”
— Tony Robbins

28. “If I can’t – then I must. If I must – then I will.”
— Tony Robbins

29. “It’s not about your resources, it’s about your resourcefulness .”
— Tony Robbins

30. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
— Tony Robbins

31. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”
— Tony Robbins

32. “Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
— Tony Robbins

33. “God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!”
— Tony Robbins

34. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”
— Tony Robbins

35. “Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.”
— Tony Robbins

36. “We always have a choice.”
— Tony Robbins

37. “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”
— Tony Robbins

38. “Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don’t take the time to focus on what matters, then you’re living a life of someone else’s design.”
— Tony Robbins

39. “Activity without purpose is the drain of your life.”
— Tony Robbins

40. “Set high standards for yourself and don’t settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.”
— Tony Robbins

41. “The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.”
— Tony Robbins

42. “Losers react. Winners anticipate.”
— Tony Robbins

43. “Commit to “CAN I!” – Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.”
— Tony Robbins

44. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
— Tony Robbins

45. “Personal power is the ability to take action.”
— Tony Robbins

46. “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
— Tony Robbins

47. “Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.”
— Tony Robbins

48. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”
— Tony Robbins

49. “Passion is the genesis of genius.”
— Tony Robbins

50. “Life will pay any price you ask of it.”
— Tony Robbins

51. “All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.”
— Tony Robbins

52. “If you are not growing, you are dying.”
— Tony Robbins

53. “Complexity is the enemy of execution!”
— Tony Robbins

54. “Don’t cross oceans for people who wouldn’t cross a puddle for you.”
— Tony Robbins

55. “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.”
— Tony Robbins

56. “Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.”
— Tony Robbins

57. “Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.”
— Tony Robbins

58. “If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does.”
— Tony Robbins

59. “Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment.”
— Tony Robbins

60. “The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there’s nothing you can’t do.”
— Tony Robbins

61. “High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.”
— Tony Robbins

62. “You can’t have a plan for your day, ’til you have a plan for your life.”
— Tony Robbins

63. “Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision.”
— Tony Robbins

64. “My philosophy is to “kill the monster while it’s little.” The best time to handle a “negative” emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It’s much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it’s full-blown.”
— Tony Robbins

65. “You feel what you’re focused on.”
— Tony Robbins

66. “The path of least resistance will never make you proud.”
— Tony Robbins

67. “We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”
— Tony Robbins

68. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
— Tony Robbins

69. “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
— Tony Robbins

70. “Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.”
— Tony Robbins

71. “Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.”
— Tony Robbins

72. “What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.”
— Tony Robbins

73. “Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.”
— Tony Robbins

74. “Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours.”
— Tony Robbins

75. “Who will you have to become, to achieve all you want?”
— Tony Robbins

76. “Success without happiness is failure.”
— Tony Robbins

77. “Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else.”
— Tony Robbins

78. “Rapport is the ability to enter someone else’s world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.”
— Tony Robbins

79. “No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it’s this adversity – and more specifically our resilience – that makes us strong and successful.”
— Tony Robbins

80. “The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.”
— Tony Robbins

81. “Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.”
— Tony Robbins

82. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality.”
— Tony Robbins

83. “Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.”
— Tony Robbins

84. “Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.”
— Tony Robbins

85. “The how will show up after the commitment to the what.”
— Tony Robbins

86. “Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.”
— Tony Robbins

87. “Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we’re made for, and what we’re responsible to give back to life.”
— Tony Robbins

88. “The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.”
— Tony Robbins

89. “The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.”
— Tony Robbins

90. “When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what’s most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”
— Tony Robbins

91. “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.”
— Tony Robbins

92. “There’s always a way – if you’re committed.”
— Tony Robbins

93. “Focus equals feeling.”
— Tony Robbins

94. “The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.”
— Tony Robbins

95. “I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.”
— Tony Robbins

96. “You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.”
— Tony Robbins

97. “Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.”
— Tony Robbins

98. “Most people know what to do, but they don’t do what they know – because they haven’t found their inner drive. Their passion.”
— Tony Robbins

99. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
— Tony Robbins

100. “It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.”
— Tony Robbins

101. “Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.”
— Tony Robbins

102. “One belief that I’ve developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.”
— Tony Robbins

103. “You could be winning and feel like you’re losing because the scorecard you’re using is unfair.”
— Tony Robbins

104. “Change is never a matter of ability, it’s always a matter of motivation.”
— Tony Robbins

105. “It’s not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.”
— Tony Robbins

106. “All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.”
— Tony Robbins

107. “People are my greatest resource.”
— Tony Robbins

108. “Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.”
— Tony Robbins

109. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
— Tony Robbins

110. “The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.”
— Tony Robbins

111. “If you can’t, then you must!”
— Tony Robbins

112. “The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It’s time to change. It’s time to live life at a new level.”
— Tony Robbins

113. “Life happens not to me but for me.”
— Tony Robbins

114. “I’m on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.”
— Tony Robbins

115. “Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.”
— Tony Robbins

116. “People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.”
— Tony Robbins

117. “The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.”
— Tony Robbins

118. “If you can’t you must, and if you must you can.”
— Tony Robbins

119. “At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.”
— Tony Robbins

120. “A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.”
— Tony Robbins

121. “My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.”
— Tony Robbins

122. “Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you’re feeling right now is related to how you’re using your body.”
— Tony Robbins

123. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
— Tony Robbins

124. “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

125. “Life is about the moments: Don’t wait for them, create them!”
— Tony Robbins

126. “Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.”
— Tony Robbins

127. “Always have something to look forward to.”
— Tony Robbins

128. “Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!”
— Tony Robbins

129. “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

130. “When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
— Tony Robbins

131. “There is no breakthrough without a breakdown.”
— Tony Robbins

132. “Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It’s invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.”
— Tony Robbins

133. “Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.”
— Tony Robbins

134. “Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.”
— Tony Robbins

135. “Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed.”
— Tony Robbins

136. “Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it’s potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.”
— Tony Robbins

137. “It’s not how long you live, but how you live that’s important. Therefore, don’t make your life just livable, make it memorable.”
— Tony Robbins

138. “Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!”
— Tony Robbins

139. “Emotion is created by motion.”
— Tony Robbins

140. “Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.”
— Tony Robbins

141. “The minute you start keeping score, you’re destroying the relationship.”
— Tony Robbins

142. “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.”
— Tony Robbins

143. “Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.”
— Tony Robbins

144. “It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”
— Tony Robbins

145. “Leaders anticipate. Losers react.”
— Tony Robbins

146. “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
— Tony Robbins

147. “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

148. “Progress is the ultimate motivation.”
— Tony Robbins

149. “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

150. “Here’s a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it’s all small stuff.”
— Tony Robbins