Robin Sharma Quotes

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

The start is what stops most people.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.