J. Robbins Quotes

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

If you don’t trust, you will die if not physically then emotionally. To do anything in life, you must have faith.

You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.

It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.

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.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

Whatever you focus on is what you get.

People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

Just because someone seems to have more certainty, doesn't mean they're right.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

You feel what you're focused on.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

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.

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.