Unlimited Power: Quotes by Tony Robbins

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Are you looking for Unlimited Power quotes by Tony Robbins? What are some of the most noteworthy passages worth revisiting?

Tony Robbins is a world-famous life coach, motivational speaker, and business strategist. Unlimited Power, published in 1986, was his first big hit as an author. The book has received largely positive reviews praising its insights and straightforward, actionable ideas.

Here’s a selection of passages with explanations.

Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement

In his book Unlimited Power, Tony Robbins claims that the key to this is ensuring that your actions, beliefs, and goals all work together and complement each other. He believes that doing so will allow you to harness a level of energy and conviction that will enable you to achieve all of your goals in life.

The following Unlimited Power quotes highlight some of the key ideas:

“People who consistently succeed are those who can commit all of their resources, mental and physical, to work together toward achieving a task.”

Many people find themselves wasting enormous amounts of time and energy because their thoughts and beliefs aren’t aligned with their goals—their mental gears grind against each other instead of meshing smoothly. For example, imagine someone wants to lose weight but spends a lot of time thinking about food and believes that he lacks the self-control to eat healthily. He’ll waste a lot of energy fighting against those thoughts and beliefs and berating himself for his perceived lack of willpower.

According to Tony, the first step to success is to eliminate that internal resistance; in other words, to make sure that what you think and what you do are really getting you closer to what you want.

“Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence. Our behavior is the result of the state we’re in.”

According to Tony Robbins, the mental state you’re in at any given moment is the key driving factor of your behavior. Your mental state is, in turn, closely linked to what your body is doing. For example, someone who’s afraid will probably be tense, have an elevated heart rate, and breathe quickly and shallowly—these are all physical responses to the emotion of fear. However, the connection goes both ways. This person can bring his fear under control by relaxing his muscles, sitting up straight, and taking slow, deep breaths; a physical state associated with calmness and confidence.

The same goes for any mental or emotional state: You can create the state you want by recreating the physical cues that go along with it. Just as your body naturally reacts to what you think and feel, your brain naturally reacts to what you do with your body.

“The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don’t think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.”

Tony Robbins says that everyone has a belief system that they’ve built—largely without realizing it—based on their upbringing, personal experiences, and knowledge. Those beliefs create the boundaries, or the lack of them, that person operates within. In other words, you can do whatever you believe you can; conversely, you can’t do what you believe you can’t. According to Tony, it is within your control to replace your disempowering beliefs with powerful ones. Overcoming self-limiting beliefs is as easy as simply deciding to do so: You can identify a disempowering belief, pick a powerful belief that you’d like to replace it, and then act according to that new belief.

Unlimited Power: Quotes by Tony Robbins