Wayne Dyer Quotes

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.