Wayne Dyer Quotes

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

A great man is one who deliberately causes something important to a happen, the probability of which seemed low before he took up the task. A great man is a man who gives history a turn which it could scarcely have taken without him. They give history a twist which nobody would have predicted. Great men leave permanent effects.

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

For me, I want to change the way people see the world. That's why I do what I do...with every email, text message, and every phone call that I get with people saying "Man what you've done God has used it to change me" that's when I see success.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Transformed people transform people.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.