People are not lazy.
by Tony Robbins

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

Related topics: Motivational Values Goals Purpose

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins

My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie