Tony Robbins Quotes

I definitely don't make many friends. It's my choice; I just have a wall. It's not that I have anything against anyone.

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

I allow no one to touch me.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I didn't get to be successful by letting people hurt Blackstone or me.

If you do get to know me, I'll tell everything to you. But I don't want to tell everything to the wrong people.

I have never given others a chance to exploit me.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our private life, it means our home, our body even. It seems that when we want to have calmness in this world, we make a wall around us. This gives us a very calm environment, and when we feel that somebody is intruding into that, it makes us very angry and we feel we have to do something about it.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

I wake up in the morning, put on my face. The one that's going to get me through another day. Doesn't really matter...how I feel inside. This life is like a game sometimes. When you came around me the walls just disappeared. Nothing to surround me and keep me from my fears. I'm unprotected. See how I've opened up? You've made me trust.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.