J. Robbins Quotes

See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.

Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.

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.

We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers

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

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.

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Life will pay any price you ask of it.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.

As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

You always succeed in producing a result.

Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.

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.

Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

You are not promised anything beyond THIS MOMENT!

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Give away your love, freely and without expectation. Give it away, and soon your life will be filled with love, and you will have set others on the path of love and peace.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling.

If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

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?