J. Robbins Quotes

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Smile. It creates positive physiological change.

Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

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.

The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

Progress equals happiness.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

When you believe it, it becomes self fulfilling.

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.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

It's a good idea not to major in minor things.

I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.

There is no abiding success without commitment.

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?

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.

The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.

If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.

It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.