Tony Robbins Quotes

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I have so much fun and I'm a better person when I'm happy.

I have tried to have a really good, positive attitude.

People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

The fact is when I get pissed off about something or something awful has happened, I just say, 'You know what? Thank you very much. Thank you for the lyrics. Because that is exactly what you just gave me.' There's no real negative then. So if something happens, I don't cry about it. I just find myself a pen and I figure it out.