Tony Robbins Quotes

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

I defy anybody to be of service to another human being and not have the most peaceful night of sleep you've had in a long, long time.

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.