Tony Robbins Quotes

There's something really comforting when you can truly connect with someone and be understood. Isn't that what we all want?

I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

Understand one another.

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

Voters will not give you a chance to solve their problems if they think you don’t understand them.

A relationship is based on communication.