This is the only Awaken The Giant Within quotes that linked to direct and genuine sources.
Except for one quote by Stu Mittleman, the ultra-distance running champion.
I have yet to locate the original source of his quote.
All the quotations by non-English personalities, found in this book “Awaken The Giant Within” by Anthony Robbins, are accompanied with quotes in their original languages.
Notable people from Socrates, Heraclitus, Voltaire to Victor Hugo, Confucius and Jose Ortega Y Gasset.
Those foreign language quotes include those in: Greek, Latin, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Mandarin.
I have also highlighted a couple of misquotations found in the book.
Anyway, this book “Awaken The Giant Within” is an amazing read.
It is packed with scientifically-sound principles, well-researched practical guidelines that can help to focus your thoughts and emotion in order to achieve your goals.
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Awaken The Giant Within Quotes
Now, let’s take your time and read through this huge selection of quotes from “Awaken The Giant Within” now.
“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.” – Orison Swett Marden
“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.” – Orison Swett Marden
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Anthony Robbins
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then, we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Landon
“…a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” – Anthony Robbins
“A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.” – Boris Pasternak
“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.” – Boris Pasternak
“Человек рождается жить, а не готовиться к жизни.” (Russian)
“Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Note: The correct quote is:
“… nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth – that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Note: The quote is NOT by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
The quote is by the Scottish mountaineer and writer, William Hutchison Murray.
“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.” – William Hutchison Murray
“…it’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Anthony Robbins
“We will either find a way, or make one.” – Hannibal
Another translation of the quote is:
“…he’ll find, or make a way.” – Hannibal
“Aut viam inve niam aut faciam.” (Latin)
“Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.” – Sir Thomas Browne
Note: The correct quote is:
“…men live but by intervals of reason, under the sovereignty of humor and passion…” – Thomas Browne
“The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way… ” – Anthony Robbins
“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” – Seneca
Another translation of the quote is:
“He suffers more than is necessary, who suffers before it is necessary…” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The quote in Latin is:
“Plus dolet quam necesse est qui ante dolet quam necesse est…” (Latin)
“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.” – Lord Chesterfield
“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.” – Michel De Montaigne
The quote in French is:
“…les voluptez me semblent à eviter, si elles tirent à leur suite des douleurs plus grandes, et les douleurs à rechercher, qui tirent à leur suite des voluptez plus grandes.” (French)
“Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure – they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think; every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm all.” – Jeremy Bentham
“Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.” – Antonio Machado
(Awaken The Giant Within: How To Take Immediate Control Of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical And Financial Destiny, New York: Simon And Schuster, 2007, Ch. 4, Belief Systems: The Power To Create And The Power To Destroy, P. 73) source
“Por debajo de lo que se piensa está lo que se cree, como si dijéramos en una capa más honda de nuestro espíritu.” (Spanish)
“Drugs are not always necessary,[but] belief in recovery always is.” – Norman Cousins
“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention is the supreme master of art, as of life.” – Joseph Conrad
“It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.” – Edmund Spenser
“As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7
“Things do not change, we change.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Once we effect a change, we should reinforce it immediately. Then, we have to condition our nervous systems to succeed not just once, but consistently.” – Anthony Robbins
“The first belief we must have if we’re going to create change quickly is that we can change now.” – Anthony Robbins
“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
Another translation of the quote is :
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.” – Rene Descartes
“Car ce n’est pas assez d’avoir l’esprit bon, mais le principal est de l’appliquer bien.” (French)
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.” – Orison Swett Marden
“Give me a lever long enough. And a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.” – Archimedes
Another translation of the quote is:
“Where should I go, and, with my lifting instrument, move the entire earth?” – Archimedes
“The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.” – Anthony Robbins
“There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.” – Mark Twain source
The correct quote is:
“There is nothing that training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach or below it. It can turn bad morals to good, good morals to bad; it can destroy principles, it can recreate them; it can debase angels to men and lift men to angels. And it can do any of these miracles in a year — even six months.” – Mark Twain
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.” – John Locke
The correct quote is:
“…good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided…” – John Locke
“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
The original quote in German is:
“Und aus Gefühlen: Rein sind alle Gefühle, die Sie zusammenfassen und aufheben; unrein ist das Gefühl, das nur eine Seite Ihres Seins erfasst und Sie so verzerrt.” (German)
“The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.” – Anthony Robbins
“We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.” – Bertrand Russell
“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.” – Anthony Robbins
“Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” – Matthew 7:7
“As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.” – The Buddha
Note: The version of the quote which I managed to find is:
“As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back.” – The Buddha
“You’ve got to be in a determined state in order to succeed.” – Anthony Robbins
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” – Aldous Huxley
“Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel tons of pleasure and very little pain…” – Anthony Robbins
“All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.” – Anthony Robbins
“Develop a plan for pleasure for each and every day.” – Anthony Robbins
“He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.” – Cameroon Proverb
“Some men see things as they are, and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were, and say, ‘Why not?'” – George Bernard Shaw
Note: The correct quote is:
“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?'” – George Bernard Shaw
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” – E. E. Cummings
“Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you’ll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.” – Anthony Robbins
“A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.” – Anthony Robbins
“You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we’re capable of, and what we’re willing to do to achieve our dreams.” – Anthony Robbins
“He that cannot ask cannot live.” – Old Proverb
Note: It is an Yiddish proverb.
“A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words … the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.” – Mark Twain
Note: The above quote by Mark Twain has been truncated. The original line should be:
“A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader’s way and makes it plain; a close approximation to it will answer, and much traveling is done in a well-enough fashion by its help, but we do not welcome it and applaud it and rejoice in it as we do when THE right one blazes out on us. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.” – Mark Twains
“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.” – Aldous Huxley
“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.” – Confucius
“不知言，無以知人也” (Mandarin)
“The metaphor is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.” – Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Another translation of the quote is:
“Metaphor is probably the most fertile of man’s resources, its effectiveness verging on the miraculous. All other faculties keep us enclosed within the real, within what already is.” – Jose Ortega Y Gasset
“La metáfora es probablemente la potencia más fértil que el hombre posee . Su eficiencia llega a tocar los confines de la taumaturgia y parece un trebejo de creación que Dios se dejó olvidado dentro de una de sus criaturas al tiempo de formarla…” (Spanish)
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” – Carl Jung
Another English translation of the quote is:
“There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.” – Carl Gustav Jung
“Es gibt keine Wandlung von Finsternis in Licht und von Trägheit in Bewegung ohne Emotion.” (German)
“We must cultivate our garden.” – Voltaire
Another translation of the quote is:
“We must take care of our garden.” – Voltaire
“…qu’il faut cultiver notre jardin.” (French)
“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony Robbins
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.” – Emmet Fox
Note: The correct quote is:
“If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.” – Emnet Fox
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” – Carl Sandburg
“We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.” – Donald Curtis
“It’s not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.” – Anthony Robbins
(Awaken The Giant Within: How To Take Immediate Control Of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny, New York: Simon And Schuster, 2007, Ch. 12, The Magnificent Obsession: Creating A Compelling Future, Failing To Achieve Your Goals Can Mean Achieving Your Real Goals, P. 283)
“There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood to-morrow.” – Victor Hugo
“Et rien n’est tel que le rêve pour engendrer l’avenir. Utopie aujourd’hui, chair et os demain.” (French)
“Climb high; Climb far. Your goal the sky; Your aim the star.” – Inscription At Williams College
“What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?” – Anthony Robbins
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” – Proverbs, 29:18
“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 Dryden
Note: This is a MISQUOTATION. The quote is NOT by John Dryden. Anyway, there is a similar quote that reads:
“…for our habits make us, and we make our habits” – Frederick Langbridge
“All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.” – Anthony Robbins
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.” – Miguel De Cervantes
Another translation of the quote is
“Do away with the cause, you do away with the sin.” – Miguel De Cervantes
(Don Quixote By Miguel De Cervantes, Translated by John Ormsby, Edited By Anthony Uyl, Lulu.com, 2016, Ch. XLVII, P. 426) source
“Quitada la causa, se quita el pecado” (Spanish)
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
The correct quote is:
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
“A man’s character is his guardian divinity.” – Heraclitus
Another translation of the quote is:
“A person’s character is his fate.” – Heraclitus
“Ἡράκλειτος ἔφη ὡς ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων” (Greek)
“Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time ones dies, some part of that meaning passes away.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“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 you are.” – John Wooden
“I hope we can build a university our football team can be proud of.” – University of Oklahoma
“People will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure.” – Anthony Robbins
“Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.” – Socrates
Another English translation of the quote is:
“…grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within.” – Socrates
“…δοίητέ μοι καλῷ γενέσθαι τἄνδοθεν: ἔξωθεν δὲ ὅσα ἔχω…” (Greek)
“We are what we repeatedly do.” – Aristotle
Note: This is a Misquotation!
Aristotle did said:
“…these virtues are formed in a man by his doing the actions.” – Aristotle
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.” – Henry Ward Beecher
This is a variant which I found:
“Hold yourself up to the highest conduct, always and everywhere.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.” – Anthony Robbins
“Any fool can make a rule – And every fool will mind it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Never assume it comes to rules. Communicate.” – Anthony Robbins
“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Note: The correct quote is:
“…a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.” – Lord Chesterfield
“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves.” – Orison Swett Marden
“…repetition is the mother of skill.” – Anthony Robbins
“It is only with the heart that one eye can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” (French)
“Limited references create a limited life. If you want to expand your life, you must expand your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn’t be a part of your life if you didn’t consciously seek them out.” – Anthony Robbins
“Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.” – Anthony Robbins
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman
“Leaders are readers.” – Anthony Robbins
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Note: The correct quote is:
“…the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Expand your references, and you’ll immediately expand your life.” – Anthony Robbins
“…everything in life happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves us.” – Anthony Robbins
“…it’s the moments of our life that shape us.” – Anthony Robbins
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” – Charles De Gaulle
“On ne fait rien de grand sans de grands hommes, et ceux-ci le sont pour l’avoir voulu”.(French)
(The quote in French is found in: Le Fil De L’Épée Par Charles De Gaulle, Soixante-Douzieme Mille, Paris: Éditions Berger-Levrault, 1961, Le Politique Et Le Soldat, IV, P. 159) source
“…the beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique – good, bad, or indifferent – from other individuals.” – Anthony Robbins
“Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.” – Anthony Robbins
“Time and again, researchers have shown that students’ capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result of teachers’ belief in their level of intelligence.” – Anthony Robbins
“The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.” – Anthony Robbins
“The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“…we look at what we do to determine who we are.” – Anthony Robbins
“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy
“His supreme agony was the disappearance of certainty, and he felt himself uprooted … Oh! What a frightful thing! The man projectile, no longer knowing his road and recoiling!” – Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
“I think, therefore I am.” – Rene Descartes
Note: There are other English translations of the quote:
“I think, therefore I am”
“I am thinking, therefore I exist”
“I think, hence I am”
“je pense, donc je suis “ (French)
Note: Descartes used the similar view of “I think, therefore I am” in another book. But this time he wrote it in Latin.
“Cogito, ergo sum” (Latin)
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless – each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of allow’d the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here.” – Walt Whitman
“Seeing’s believing, but feeling’s the truth.” – Thomas Fuller, M.D.
“We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.” – Stu Mittleman
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Der menschliche Körper ist das beste Bild der menschlichen Seele.” (German)
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” – Antonio Porchia
The original quote is:
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Who understands?” – Antonio Porchia
“Todo cabe en un alma llena y nada cabe en un alma vacía Quién entiende, Quién entiende.” (Spanish)
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” – Ayn Rand
“Charity and personal force are the only investments.” – Walt Whitman
Note: The complete quote is:
“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.” – Walt Whitman
“Go put your creed into your deed.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” – Oliver Goldsmith
“We have time enough if we will but use it aright.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Another translation of the quote is:
“…one always has time enough, if one will apply it well…” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“..man immer Zeit genug hat wenn man sie gut anwenden will…” (German)
“The great man is he that does not lose his child’s-heart.” – Mencius
Note: Here are are two slightly different English translations:
“A great man is one who has not lost the heart of a new born babe.”
“A great man is one who retains the heart of a newborn baby.”
“養生者不足以當大事，惟送死可以當大事” (Mandarin)
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.” – Dante
Other translations of the quote are:
“A small spark is followed by great flame.” – Dante
“From a small spark, great flame hath risen.” – Dante
“Poca favilla gran flamma seconda.” (Italian)
“Every man is an impossibility until he is born.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was involuntary; they sank my boat.” – John F. Kennedy (when asked how he’d become a hero)
“While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” – Eugene Victor Debs
Note: The correct quote is:
“While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal class I am of it; while there is a soul in prison I am not free.” – Eugene Victor Debs
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” – John Wooden
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.” – Anthony Robbins
“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” – Teilhard De Chardin
Other translation of the quote is:
“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” – Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
“Quelque jour, après l’éther, les vents, les marées, la gravitation, nous capterons, pour Dieu, les énergies de l’amour. Et alors, une deuxième fois, dans l’histoire du Monde, l’Homme aura trouvé le Feu.” (French)
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