Top 40 Richard Bandler Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There are no failures – only feedback.”

— Richard Bandler

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2. “The trick is: you have to feel good for no reason.”

— Richard Bandler

3. “Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.”

— Richard Bandler

4. “NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind.”

— Richard Bandler

5. “You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it’s a lot of work!”

— Richard Bandler

6. “Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.”

— Richard Bandler

7. “The meaning of a communication is the result you get.”

— Richard Bandler

8. “Freedom is everything and Love is all the rest.”

— Richard Bandler

9. “Brains aren’t designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don’t, then someone else will.”

— Richard Bandler

10. “The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.”

— Richard Bandler

11. “Remember, it’s your own body, your own brain. You’re not a victim of the universe, you are the universe.”

— Richard Bandler

12. “The truth is, people don’t stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.”

— Richard Bandler

13. “How much pleasure can you stand?”

— Richard Bandler

14. “I don’t think that understanding produces change. Learning produces change.”

— Richard Bandler

15. “People wait for something to happen in order to be happy; the key is to be happy regardless.”

— Richard Bandler

16. “The best thing about the past is that it’s over. The best thing about the future is that it’s yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it’s here now.”

— Richard Bandler

17. “If you can’t enjoy what you have, you can’t enjoy more of it.”

— Richard Bandler

18. “Disappointment requires adequate planning.”

— Richard Bandler

19. “Don’t re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.”

— Richard Bandler

20. “If it’s worth feeling bad about, it’s worthy of amnesia.”

— Richard Bandler

21. “You can stop anything but a person with a good attitude.”

— Richard Bandler

22. “There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.”

— Richard Bandler

23. “The currency of living is how you spend the moments of your life.”

— Richard Bandler

24. “We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.”

— Richard Bandler

25. “Optimism, that is healthy in its application, will inevitably result in better physical and emotional health.”

— Richard Bandler

26. “Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn’t there.”

— Richard Bandler

27. “The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can’t, but in the things you’ve never considered doing.”

— Richard Bandler

28. “It’s an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that’s worthwhile.”

— Richard Bandler

29. “Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.”

— Richard Bandler

30. “Brains aren’t designed to get results. They go in DIRECTIONS.”

— Richard Bandler

31. “You can’t change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it...”

— Richard Bandler

32. “Evolution isn’t over. We are the experience that the universe is having.”

— Richard Bandler

33. “The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn’t fix.”

— Richard Bandler

34. “Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.”

— Richard Bandler

35. “The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.”

— Richard Bandler

36. “The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!”

— Richard Bandler

37. “Our biggest limit is not in what we want and cannot do; it is in what we have never considered that we can do.”

— Richard Bandler

38. “Physics changes, but reality stays the same.”

— Richard Bandler

39. “We need to learn to treat our own brain better – understanding how it works will help us do that.”

— Richard Bandler

40. “People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don’t trust themselves.”

— Richard Bandler

41. “Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.”

— Richard Bandler

42. “Why be your real self when you can be something really worthwhile?”

— Richard Bandler

43. “We take the very best of what people do, synthesise it down, make it learnable and share it with each other – and that is what the real future of what NLP will be and its gonna stay that way!”

— Richard Bandler

44. “Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.”

— Richard Bandler

45. “Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.”

— Richard Bandler

46. “If at any point you discover yourself hesitating, or being incongruent, or putting off until tomorrow something you could try now, or just needing some new choices, or being bored, glance over your right shoulder and there will be two madmen there, sitting on stools, insulting you.”

— Richard Bandler

47. “In my experience, the biggest challenge people face is learning to get out of their own way. When you can see just how easy change can be, you can begin to take control over your life and make all the changes you want – but you need to take the action.”

— Richard Bandler