“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less” -General Eric Shinseki

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”–Warren Buffett

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”–Samuel Johnson

“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” -Sumner Redstone

“Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.”–General Norm Schwarzkopf

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” – John Wooden

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. “–Peter Drucker

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence” -Vince Lombardi

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” -Henry David Thoreau

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”–Alan Lakein

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. “–Walt Disney

“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.”–Wilbur Wright

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work” -Thomas J. Watson

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”–Ray Kroc

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. “–Robert Frost

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming” -John Wooden

“Our job is satisfying the American public. We must give most of the people what they want most of the time.”–William Paley

“Just do what you do best” -Red Auerbach

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”–Stephen Hawking

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door” -Milton Berle

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow” -Albert Einstein

“I have a perfect horror of words that aren’t backed up by deeds.”–Theodore Roosevelt

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them … into the impossible.”–Arthur C. Clarke

“Lost time is never found again.” -Ben Franklin

“I don’t believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished without taking any chances at all.”–Charles Lindbergh

“Success is the child of audacity” -Benjamin Disraeli

“I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”–Thomas Edison

“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”–Mark Twain

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. “–Abraham Lincoln

“The fastest way to succeed? Look like you’re playing by someone else’s rules while quietly playing by your own.”–Michael Korda

“Don’t measure yourself by what you’ve accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability” – John Wooden

“The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts” -Albert Einstein

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” –Voltaire

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”–Theodore Roosevelt

“I owe my success to having listened to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”–G.K. Chesterton

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”–Carlos Castaneda

“A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. “–Thomas Watson

“In business, everyone’s paid in 2 coins: cash & experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later” –Harold Geneen

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on” –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tony Robbins is an infamous American self-help author and one of the top motivational speakers in the world. His bestselling books include Unlimited Power and my personal favorite Awaken the Giant Within.

Robbins began his career promoting seminars for motivational speaker Jim Rohn. He began working for Jim when he was 18 years old, and worked with him until he was 22.

Later Robbins began hosting seminars which included teachings on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) which he learned from NLP co-founder John Grinder. Eventually Robbins incorporated firewalking into his seminars; this is something he learned from Tolly Burkan.

Robbins has used infomercials to promote his seminars and products and although Robbins is known for being a motivational speaker, he refers to himself as a peak performance coach rather than a motivational speaker. Robbins believes that coaching is more important than motivation.

7 Amazing Lessons from Tony Robbins:

1. Focus
   
   

   "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.”

   
   Nothing is more critical than focus. If you fail to reach your goal, it is because somewhere along the way your focus was "broken." Focus is power; a focused person can accomplish more than 100 individuals who are merely interested.
2. Realize That Decisions Decide Destinies
   

   "It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”

   
   More than anything else, your decisions decide your future. Its how you play the cards that you’ve been dealt that matters most. Decisions decide destinies! The decision to further pursue your education, the decision on who you marry, the decision to start your own business, the decision to just sit around and make excuses; your life is a result of the decisions that you’ve made.
3. Recognize the Path to Success
   
   

   "The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”

   
   Wow, what a quote! This is the path to success.
   
   Anybody can make excuses and say “you have to be lucky to succeed,” but the truth is, we all have the power to succeed, however we're all not willing to do what it takes to succeed (that’s the difference). Most prefer to sit on the side-line, or play Monday morning quarterback.
4. Raise Your Standard
   
   

   “Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming. If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”

   
   In life you get what you accept and what you expect. What do you expect from yourself? Do you expect to be average; do you expect to live an average life or to have an average job? What are you accepting? Are you accepting living paycheck to paycheck? Are you accepting barely getting along?
   
   To succeed you must raise your standard, you must begin to see yourself differently.
5. Major in Major Things
   
   

   "Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”

   
   Give your time and attention to what matters most. Dedicate your life to doing big things; leave the little things to someone else. Learn to think big, to act big, and your life will take on a new direction.
   
   Major in major things!
6. Do What You Know To Do
   
   

   “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.”

   
   Chances are you already have enough information to dramatically transform your life from the inside-out; you’re just not putting that information into action. It’s not enough to possess knowledge, you must act on what you know in-order to change your destiny.
7. Learn to Follow the Leader
   

   "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.”

   
   There’s no sense in re-creating the wheel. Find someone who’s succeeding and do what they did. If it worked for them, it will work for you. Follow the leader, think like the leader, act like the leader, and you will become the leader!

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If you woke up this morning with more health than illness..........you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation.......you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace....... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married........you are very rare, even in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful.....you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you prayed yesterday and today........you are in the minority because you believe God does hear and answer prayers.

If you can read now, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

-Author Unknown-

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Things may come to those who wait, but only the

things left by those who hustle.”

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How often have we heard about a new product, or a new way of doing

something, and it was exactly what we had already thought about. Someone

else received credit for it because they took the action and did it.

We can spend hours, days, months, even years, thinking or talking about

something we want to accomplish. But, nothing happens until we take action!

People have lots of ideas, yet they never take a step towards

implementation. They think it can’t be done, or that it would take too much

work, or they listen to other people who tell them it won’t work.

Has someone ever voiced an idea you’ve been thinking about, and everyone

thought it was great? *Don’t be left behind take action on your ideas!*

"Ideas without action are worthless."

- Harvey Mackay

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