Tony Robbins Quotes

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

"Save more tomorrow" is a nudge to help people do what they know they want to do, which is save more, but they can't bring themselves to save more now. Just like many of us are planning to go on diets next month, or maybe in two months, certainly not tonight.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn’t mean that they’ve changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn’t mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

People like things they can do now, not just think about.

Lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices.

I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

Present thinking people kill the future.

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.