Tony Robbins Quotes

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

Part of growing up is learning to live with your emotions; today’s shortcut is to believe whatever your feelings are, they’re justified.

Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.