J. Robbins Quotes

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Plan for pleasure for each and every day.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.

Make it so today is not like yesterday and tomorrow will be different FOREVER.

Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.

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.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

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.

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

The past does not equal the future.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.

The first belief we must have if we're going to create change quickly is that we can change now.

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

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

Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.