Robin Sharma Quotes

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

When I stuff things down and avoid it or try to work too hard through something that needs to be addressed, that's when life slaps me in the face, and I get told. I got told to slow down.

All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid.

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.

Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.