Wayne Dyer Quotes

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.