Wayne Dyer Quotes

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

All limitations are self-imposed.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.