Wayne Dyer Quotes

You exist only in what you do.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

In order to do something you must be something.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Working is living to me.

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

If you ask a woman who she is, she'll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn't the whole story.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.