Dean Ornish Quotes

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

You get successful for the person that you are, not for the way you look. If you feel good, you can conquer the world, so you need to feel right inside.

I am so much more than what happened to me. I'm a mother and a businesswoman; I run a charity that supports others overcoming adversity; and, most importantly, I'm happy.

Love yourself for who you are and just keep going.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Instead of being insecure and jealous and suspicious and wonder if every guy is going to cheat on me, I decided to say, "Nope. This will be totally enough for somebody one day." That was a real script flip and it changed the rest of my life in such a positive way. So I feel like I want to teach stuff like that to my girls.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.