Robin Sharma Quotes

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

To give your best is to receive the best.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

As long as you are happy and passionate about what you are doing, you will always develop your skills to be the best you can be.

Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

I always want to grow and top myself.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.