Robin Sharma Quotes

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Preach in your own house and to your own company

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

Before you can lead anybody else, you gotta put yourself in the right position to be successful.

We can't focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.