Wayne Dyer Quotes

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

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

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

I haven't really looked at myself as someone that needs to prove a point to anyone.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.