Tony Horton Quotes

Do your best and forget the rest.

your ego is nothing but a mean and cruel deceptive little freak living inside your head that will never bring joy and happiness to your life. What that ego will bring is frustration, depression, manipulation, and fear.

Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.

Your limitations may be challenges, but they shouldn’t be excuses.

Solution-minded people don’t see roadblocks as deal breakers.

Resilience isn’t just key to happiness; it’s key to success.

If you live in a chronic state of stress and anxiety, it’s inevitable that depression, fatigue, and a few extra pounds will be your constant companions. Having

There’s nothing wrong with failing. In fact, failure needs a new name. “Failure” should be renamed “awesome.” Everyone loves awesome.

There is no passion to be found in playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

sitting still” is just about the worst thing you can do. It’s the new “going backward.

do yourself a huge favor: Ditch the fear. Hate less and explore more

It’s the opposite of people who live waiting for life to come to them. Then you’re just a victim or you’re a lottery winner, so I choose to live life with a plan or a goal. I lay out the steps to get there and then assess them constantly. But usually I only get a clear snapshot of my plan when I look in the rearview mirror and see what I did.” - Beachbody CEO Carl Daikeler Excerpt From: Tony Horton. “The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life.

The best way to figure out what you need to do is to first figure out what you want to do.

If you want to support, provide for, and care for the people around you, you need to be at your best. Otherwise, you’ll just drag them down with you.

This is also where breakthroughs happen. Take it from fitness expert, Tony Horton: Failure and success are siamese twins; they don’t exist without each other. There’s no way around it. The problem with the word “failure” is that it connotes that you’re a loser—and losers don’t succeed or get the girl (or guy or pie or pot of gold or whatever it is you wanna get). As a result, many people would rather play it safe, not take chances, not explore, and never, ever stick their neck out and actually try. Most people don’t realize that failure is the key to joy, happiness, and growth. If you’re afraid to fail, then you’ll never expose yourself to opportunities for success. On the other hand, if you view failure as awesome, then you’ll be open to trying things—and falling on your face, screwing up, making mistakes, and blowing it once in a while. Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.[27]

This may sound like a huge task, but it’s not. It’s simply a matter of learning to recognize the things that don’t matter so that you can let them go.

Erasers are your friends on the road to success.

Today, did I do my best and forget the rest?

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Do your best” means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome. It means reality is not something you can manipulate. “Forget the rest” means you don’t let the same things that used to get in your way, get in your way.

Old friends are turning into old men and women right before my eyes. Most of them have resigned themselves to the idea that declining health is an inevitable side effect of aging. But it's never too late to reverse the effects of aging. If you wake up every day committed to doing something to counter and prevent such ailments, you can create a happy, healthy, youthful life, no matter what your age.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory. —MAHATMA GANDHI

They say that about 3 percent of the people on Earth live in bliss. So what the hell are the other 97 percent doing?

How are you going to live your purpose if you don’t face your fears? How are you going to get better if you don’t get better?

Too many people hold on too tightly to strategies, thoughts, or activities that don’t work for them anymore. You want to avoid that. Think about it: They. Don’t. Work. If your television broke, would you keep it? If your car died, would you park it in the backyard, fill it with dirt, and use it as a planter? If your phone stopped working, would you just stop calling people? Of course not! If any of these things broke and were no longer of service to you, you would fix them or get new versions of them. If you have an activity, habit, or ritual that’s no longer serving you, why on earth would you keep at it?

best” means showing up and doing your best without being attached to the outcome.