Tony Robbins Quotes

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

I hate change more than almost anything.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

I think people don't really like change.

I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.

You get used to a certain thing, and you don't want to change. Because that's what's worked for you.