These are the best highlights from the book Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins.
In Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins. He teaches you how to uncover your true purpose, take charge of your life, and harness the forces that determine your destiny through a step-by-step method that teaches you the essential fundamentals of self-mastery.
Quotes from the book Awaken the giant within by Anthony Robbins
For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is raise your standards.
One belief that I’ve developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God’s delays are not God’s denials.
Anytime you have difficulty making an important decision, you can be sure that it’s the result of being unclear about your values.
You need to set and live by these standards no matter what happens in your life.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.
Changing an organization, a company, a country, or a world begins with the simple step of changing yourself.
Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
Repetition is the mother of skill.
Beliefs even have the capacity to override the impact of drugs on the body.
Sometimes coaches can teach you new information, new strategies, and skills.
You want to learn from your past, not live in its focus on the things that empower you.
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action!
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
I don’t worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.
A mind out of control will play tricks on you. Directed, it’s your greatest friend.
There’s always a way if I’m committed.
If you are not driven to make the change now, then you don’t really have leverage.
Everything we do, we do for a reason.
You get what you focus on in life.
I’ve found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how, but 80 percent is knowing why.
One of the most important decisions you can make to ensure your long-term happiness is to decide to use whatever life gives you in the moment.
Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade.
Getting old is not a matter of age; it’s a lack of movement. And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
Know that it’s your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Often our resources are limited only by the questions we ask ourselves.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I constantly strive to learn and to make new and more powerful distinctions about ways to add value to other people’s lives.
