Wayne Dyer Quotes

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

Don't confuse who you are with the results that you produce.

Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

My success is not who I am.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.