Robin Sharma Quotes

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

We are shaped by our conversations.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Conversation makes one what he is.

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

I took a lot from friends, but also me.

Who you are depends on who you meet.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.