Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

Your success and happiness start with you.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.

I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of

Be your own motivation.

To create the life of your dreams, the time has come for you to love You. Focus on Your joy. Do all the things that make You feel good. Love You, inside and out. Everything will change in your life, when you change the inside of you. Allow the Universe to give you every good thing you deserve, by being a magnet to them all. To be a magnet for every single thing you deserve, you must be a magnet of love.

I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.