Tony Robbins Quotes

We all want certainty.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.

My security is assured everywhere, and at any moment.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.

TIPS! How people want tips! They crave not only to get them but to give them.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.