Tony Robbins Quotes

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

I believe that life is about doing.

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Life is short. Be of use.

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do it.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.