Wayne Dyer Quotes

“A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic… someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. ”

“An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.”

“As you think, so shall you be.”

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

“Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.”

“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.”

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.”

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

“Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing.”

“Disease doesn’t exist. Instead of thinking of it as a disease think of it for a moment as energy, with a frequency. It is energy with a frequency that is inhabiting your body that is not in harmony with the frequency at which your body was created in association with God. It’s just an incompatible frequency that’s all it is. It’s just a frequency that if it continues to occupy your body, your body cannot survive.”

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“Don't die with the music still in you.”

“Don't pole-vault over mouse truds - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!”

“Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”

“Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.”

“Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.”

“Frequently, avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future... When an event does not live up to your expectations you can get out of the depression by idealizing again. Do not let this vicious circle become your life-style. Interrupt it now with some strategic present-moment fulfillment.”

“Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.”

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”

“Hit the delete button every time fear appears.”

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”

“I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.”

“I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.”

“I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.”

“If we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives.”

“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.”

“If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles.”

“If you follow the herd, you’ll end up stepping in shit.”

“If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over head, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the world. Just that – doesn’t that call for some gratitude?”

“If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”

“If you’re always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else’s performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.”

“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”

“In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring.”

“Infinite patience brings immediate results.”

“It’s never crowded along the extra mile.”

“Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.”

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

“Love what you do. Do what you love.”

“Loving people live in a loving world, hostile people live in a hostile world. The same world.”

“Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit.”

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

“No one knows enough to be a pessimist.”

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”

“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”

“People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.”

“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.”

“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”

“Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.”

“Rather than looking for miracles, shift to seeing everything as miraculous.”

“Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.”

“Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce.”

“Remember, purpose is about giving... All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.”

“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”

“Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.”

“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”

“Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”

“Syllogism ―
Major premise: I can control my thoughts.
Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts.
Conclusion: I can control my feelings.”

“The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”

“The antidote to fear is faith.”

“The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.”

“The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.”

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”

“The last suit that you wear – you don’t need any pockets.”

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

“The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”

“The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if
what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

“The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

“The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.”

“There is a story concerning the Buddha, who is in the company of a fellow traveler who tests this great teacher with derogatory, insulting, disparaging, and bitter responses to anything the Buddha says. Every day, for three days when the Buddha spoke, the traveler responded by calling him a fool, and ridiculing the Buddha in some arrogant fashion. Finally, at the end of the third day, the traveler could stand it no more. He asked, “How is it that you are able to be so loving and kind when all I’ve done for the past three days is dishonor and offend you? Each time I am disobliging to you, you respond in a loving manner. How is this possible?” The Buddha responded with a question of his own for the traveler. "If someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept that gift, to whom does the gift belong?”

“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

“There is only one moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future experiences.”

“Think about every single person who has ever harmed you, cheated you, defrauded you, or said unkind things about you. Your experience of them is nothing more than a thought that you carry around with you. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies that will disempower you. If you could release them, you would know more peace.”

“To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.”

“We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you.”

“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”

“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace.”

“When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are lin love, there is no room for fear.”

“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

“When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.”

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

“When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside.”

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

“You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”

“You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you`re alone with.”

“You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”

“You correct an error by bringing truth to it.”

“You don’t need to be better than anyone else; you just need to be better than you used to be.”

“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.”

“You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.”

“You'll see it when you believe it.”

“You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.”

“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”