Robin Sharma

Too many of us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
– Robin Sharma

What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are
consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.
– Robin Sharma

Fatigue dominates the life of those who are living without direction and dreams.
– Robin Sharma

If you don’t act on life, life will act on you.
– Robin Sharma

Every time you say YES to something that is unimportant, you say NO to something that is
important.
– Robin Sharma

Small daily improvement over time leads to stunning success.
– Robin Sharma

The most successful human beings are wildly focused. They have a very clear picture of what
it is they want to create by the time they reach the end of their lives and then they have
the discipline (and courage) to stick to their mission – saying “no” to everything that is not
mission critical.
– Robin Sharma

Life is just a series of moments. If you miss the moments, you miss your life.
– Robin Sharma

Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.
– Robin Sharma

Join the 5 o’clock Club. Win the battle of the bed. Put mind over mattress. Get up early.
– Robin Sharma

People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than
others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one
knows, the more one achieves.
– Robin Sharma

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being
superior to your former self.
– Robin Sharma

To live on in the minds and hearts of the generations who will follow you is to cheat death.
– Robin Sharma

How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself?
How can you do good if you don’t even feel good?
I cannot love you if I cannot love myself.
– Robin Sharma

The only people with no problems are dead.
– Robin Sharma

Every day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be
defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.
– Robin Sharma

Focus + daily improvement + time = genius. Understand that formula deeply and your life will
never be the same.
– Robin Sharma

Being a leader isn’t about being liked. It’s about doing what’s right.
– Robin Sharma

Leadership has nothing to do with the title on your business card or the size of your office.
Leadership is not about how much money you make or the clothes you wear. Leadership is a
philosophy. It’s an attitude. It’s a state of mind.
– Robin Sharma

Life tests the big dreamers – the passionate revolutionaries.
– Robin Sharma

Success will come from simplicity.
– Robin Sharma

Truly enlightened people, those who experience deep happiness daily, are prepared to put off
short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term fulfillment.
– Robin Sharma

A human being will never act in a way bigger than its thoughts. Dream big and your behavior
will follow. Think small and you’ll play small.
– Robin Sharma

Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within.
– Robin Sharma

What distinguishes people with an extraordinary character from the rest of us is how they
respond when life sends one of its inevitable curves.
– Robin Sharma

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.
– Robin Sharma

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.
– Robin Sharma

To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it’s probable. Please
don’t allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much
better. And the world deserves your best.
– Robin Sharma

The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.
– Robin Sharma

All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
– Robin Sharma

If you’re not scared a lot you’re not doing very much.
– Robin Sharma

Have the discipline to clean out all the energy-draining people in your life. You really do rise or
fall to the level of your associations.
– Robin Sharma

Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.
– Robin Sharma

Other people’s opinions of you are none of your business.
– Robin Sharma

Keep promises and be impeccable with your word. People buy more than just your products
and services. They invest in your credibility.
– Robin Sharma

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.
– Robin Sharma

Pain is often the precursor to personal growth. Don’t dread it. Instead, embrace it.
– Robin Sharma

Life wants you to win… please get out of your own way.
– Robin Sharma

The ones who fan the flames of their human potential and truly savor the magical dance of
life do different things than those whose lives are ordinary. Foremost amongst the things that
they do is adopt a positive paradigm about their world and all that is in it.
– Robin Sharma

Self-mastery is the DNA of life mastery.
– Robin Sharma

I’ve yet to read an obituary that says, “he died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his
lawyer, his stockbroker and his accountant.”
– Robin Sharma

Some of life’s best pleasures are its simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and
your heart will be happy.
– Robin Sharma

Good health is a crown on the head of a well person that only a sick person can see.
– Robin Sharma

Part of what makes us human is the hunger to realize our greatest gifts and live life fully. We
were built to shine.
– Robin Sharma

Your I CAN is more important than your IQ.
– Robin Sharma

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now
they are revered.
– Robin Sharma

In your life, and in your organization, do you treat your guests “like Gods?”
– Robin Sharma

Business is about loving the people who do business with you and giving them more value
than they have any right to expect.
– Robin Sharma

We become excellent by doing excellent things.
We become fearless by visiting the places that scare us.
We become strong by living our strengths. Not our weaknesses.
– Robin Sharma

Adults are nothing more than deteriorated children.
– Robin Sharma

Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways I know of to honor that person and
forge a deep human connection.
– Robin Sharma

Mind management is the essence of life management.
– Robin Sharma

The quality of your life ultimately comes down to the quality of your contribution.
– Robin Sharma

A worrisome thought is like an embryo: it starts off small but grows and grows. Soon it takes
on a life of its own.
– Robin Sharma

Every visionary was initially called crazy.
– Robin Sharma

Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.
– Robin Sharma

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your
thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in
every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces,
faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you
ever dreamed yourself to be.
– Robin Sharma

Dream big. Start small. Act now.
– Robin Sharma

The real source of happiness can be stated in a word: achievement. Lasting happiness comes
from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing confidently in the direction of
your life’s purpose.
– Robin Sharma

Enlightened people are priority driven. This is the secret of time mastery.
– Robin Sharma

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
– Robin Sharma

It’s amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people
give up too early. Their fears are bigger than their faith.
– Robin Sharma

Investing in learning and getting your skill to world class is the smartest investment you’ll
ever make.
– Robin Sharma

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to
enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars in a moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a
glorious summer morning.
– Robin Sharma

Leadership is not about a title, it’s about your results.
– Robin Sharma

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously
that they forget to laugh at themselves.
– Robin Sharma

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.
– Robin Sharma

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.
– Robin Sharma

Doing huge dreams we have never done can be frightening. Yet when we push to the edges of
our limits, our limits expand.
– Robin Sharma

Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.
– Robin Sharma

To double your income, triple your investment in self-development.
– Robin Sharma

At the heart of mastery lives consistency.
– Robin Sharma

Knowing how to read and not reading is almost the same as not knowing how to read.
– Robin Sharma

It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others.
It’s only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others.
When you feel centered and alive, you are in a much better position to be a better person.
– Robin Sharma

Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured.
– Robin Sharma

Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.
– Robin Sharma

Education is inoculation against disruption.
– Robin Sharma

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.
– Robin Sharma

Criticism is the price of ambition.
– Robin Sharma

Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.
– Robin Sharma

The swiftest way to grow your company is to grow your people.
– Robin Sharma

An addiction to distraction is the end of creative production.
– Robin Sharma

The caliber of your practice determines the quality of your performance.
– Robin Sharma

Don’t worry about the economy when you can be so genius at what you do that you create
your very own personal economy.
– Robin Sharma

The thing you most fear carries your greatest growth.
– Robin Sharma

Criticism is the price brave people pay to arrive at iconic.
– Robin Sharma

The true measure of our leadership is how we perform in volatile conditions versus in times of
ease.
– Robin Sharma

Aim for iconic. Why be in it if you’re not dreaming of being in the history books? But be kind,
decent and ethical along the way.
– Robin Sharma

Life is short. Be of use.
– Robin Sharma

Change is the most powerful force in our society today. Most people fear it, the wise
embrace it.
– Robin Sharma

A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem.
– Robin Sharma

The best way to influence your kids is to walk the talk… Don’t preach the beauty of books
and learning and then head into your family room to watch three hours of MTV.
– Robin Sharma

Good manners are a stepping stone to being a remarkable human being.
– Robin Sharma

There’s a cure for aging that no one talks about. It’s called learning.
– Robin Sharma

While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.
– Robin Sharma

Why resist change when it’s the main source of your growth?
– Robin Sharma

Just because excellent manners are not so common doesn’t mean that excellent manners are
not incredibly important.
– Robin Sharma

Your diet affects your moods. Eat like a superstar.
– Robin Sharma

Gratitude is the antidote to misery.
– Robin Sharma

Less entertainment, more education.
– Robin Sharma

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to
happiness is to get successful. Untrue.
– Robin Sharma

You rarely go wrong when you trust yourself.
– Robin Sharma

Real leaders have the guts to have the hard conversations.
– Robin Sharma

Don’t do your best work for the applause it generates but for the personal pride it delivers.
– Robin Sharma

Passion + production = performance.
– Robin Sharma

If you’re in business, you’re in show business. The moment you get to work, you’re on stage.
Give us the performance of your life.
– Robin Sharma

Saying “I’ll try” really means “I’m not really committed.”
– Robin Sharma

The job of the leader is to develop more leaders.
– Robin Sharma

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
– Robin Sharma

Doing the difficult things that you’ve never done awakens the talents you never knew you
had.
– Robin Sharma