A collection of quotations by Robert Greene on success, motivation, inspiration, life, lessons, power, words, practices, writings, define, love and psychology.
Robert Greene is an American author, famous for his writings on the genres of strategy, power and seduction. He has admitted to have served approximately at eighty jobs, right from a construction worker to a Hollywood movie writer. before pursuing a full-time career in writing. While working as a writer at Fabrica he pitched his first book to a publisher to turn it into his debut book titled ‘The 48 Laws of Power’. This book aims to become a practical guide for people trying to acquire power or defending themselves from a powerful person. His mentioned rules have been drawn from a deep study of the life of powerful rulers. This book turned out to be a commercial success and it sold more than 1.2 million copies to prove his prominence as a writer. This was followed by various other successful books including ‘The Art of Seduction’ and ‘Mastery’. Robert has proved to be a versatile writer as he has never stuck to any one genre while portraying equal intellect in all the genres. A lot of his perspectives and views have become quite famous as his quotes and thoughts and is quoted extensively. We have collected the famous quotes and sayings by Robert Greene to help you see life through his perspective.
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
Robert Greene
Despise The Free Lunch
Robert Greene
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...
Robert Greene
A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot.
Robert Greene
People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
Robert Greene
12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
Robert Greene
Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.
Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.
There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.
Robert Greene
Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones.
Robert Greene
You may think that what you’d like to recapture from your youth is your looks, your physical fitness, your simple pleasures, but what you really need is the fluidity of mind you once possessed.
Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.
Robert Greene
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.
Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master’s sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.
Robert Greene
Through continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside of them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective, but this requires effort on our part.
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.
As Gracián said, “The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
Robert Greene
If you allow yourself to learn who you really are by paying attention to that voice and force within you, then you can become what you were fated to become—an individual, a Master.
The only means to gain one’s ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment. JOHANN VON GOETHE, 1749-1832
In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. —MARCUS AURELIUS
Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.
Robert Greene
The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain—like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out.
It is not much good being wise among fools and sane among lunatics.
Robert Greene
You are like a hunter: your knowledge of every detail of the forest and of the ecosystem as a whole will give you many more options for survival and success.
Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective.
The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
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