Summary: Awaken the Giant Within Anthony Robbins

It is your decisions and not your conditions that determine your destiny. The key is not what you know but what you commit to do.

‘‘When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.’’

‘‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’’

A person doesn’t drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror, but uses the mirror when necessary

‘‘Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.’’
- Henry Ward Beecher

‘‘Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.’’
- Bruce Barton
‘‘We are what we repeatedly do.’’
- Aristotle
‘‘Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think think you are.’’
- John Wooden
3. Rules

The key to long-term happiness is to live by your own high ideals, by the strongest possible effect of our positive value system. Many people spend more time worrying about what they want to own, when in reality who they are has a much more powerful influence on how they spend their lives and ultimately what they own. Values are the compass that will guide every person to their ultimate destiny

‘‘Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.’’
- George Bernard Shaw

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.’’
- Nathaniel Emmons
‘‘We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.’’
- John

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.’’
- Donald Curtis
‘‘Nothing happens unless first a dream.’’
- Carl Sandburg
‘‘There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow.’’