Best quotes from Wayne Dyer, motivational speaker, psychotherapist, philosopher, and one of the best self-help book writers. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold to date.
Wayne Dyer was considered the "Father of the modern self-help movement" or the "Father of motivation." He spent most of his childhood in orphanages and foster homes and was the driving force that inspired him to move on in life.
He began his career as a psychotherapist after receiving his BA and Ph.D. from Wyne University. Her motivational speeches attracted large numbers of students and encouraged her to put her thoughts in writing.
The result was his first book, 'Your erroneous zones', which he promoted in bookstores and giving interviews to the media. She released audiotapes of her motivational speeches and made television appearances. He denounced living in guilt and emphasized self-realization and self-reliance.
Dyer was influenced by Abraham Maslow's concept of self-realization and by the teachings of Swami Muktananda, whom he considered his Master. His expertise in psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy have helped millions of people around the world.
He published more than 30 self-help books, some of the popular ones being Build Your Destiny, Wisdom of the Ages, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, The Power of Intention, or Think Different, Live Different.
You may also be interested in these self-help phrases.
Best Wayne Dyer Quotes
-If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
-What you do is the only meter to measure yourself as a person, not what you say or what they say about you.
-Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment from others.
-Love is cooperation instead of competition.
-Be aware of the routine is to take the first step to change it.
-When you have a choice between being correct and being nice, choose to be nice.
-Go for him now. The future is not promised to anyone.
-When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.
-Maximum for life: you will be treated in life in the way you teach people to treat you.
-Practice being the type of person you would like to attract.
-Our intention creates our reality.
-You can't always control what happens on the outside, but you can always control what happens inside.
-There is no point worrying about things you have no control over because there is nothing you can do.
-Be miserable or motivate yourself. Whatever you do, it's your choice.
-I'm realistic, I expect miracles.
-You can get anything you really want, if you really pursue it.
-Start to see yourself as a soul with a body instead of a body with a soul.
-You can't be alone if you like the person you are alone with.
-You'll see it when you believe it.
-Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
-There is no stress in the world, only people who have stressful thoughts.
-You are condemned to make decisions. That is the greatest paradox in life.
-You cannot fail, you can only produce results.
-The antidote for fear is faith.
-I would rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I am not.
-If you think it will work, you will see opportunities. If you think it won't, you will see obstacles.
-If your stay on earth is so short, it should be at least pleasant. In short, it's about your life; do with it what you want.
-Self esteem cannot be verified by others. You are worth it because you say it is so.
-The need for approval from others is equivalent to saying: "What you think of me is more important than the opinion I have of myself."
-You are what you choose to be today, not what you chose to be before.
-If you think that feeling bad or worrying enough will change a past or future event, it means that you reside on another planet with a different reality system.
-There are no rules or laws or traditions that can be applied universally… including this one.
-If the world were so organized that everything had to be fair, there would be no living creature that could survive even a single day.
-There is no shortage of opportunities to earn a living from what you love; there is only a shortage of will.
-You have everything you need for complete peace and happiness right now.
-There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
-Only the insecure fight for safety.
-Successful people make money. It is not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
-Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
-The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
-The meaning of life is to get a meaning for life.
-Don't die with the music still in you.
-Stop acting like life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
-The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something that you know nothing about.
-The catastrophe that worries you so often turns out to be less horrible in reality than it was in your imagination.
-The greatest gift that you have ever been given is the gift of your imagination.
-It's impossible to be pissed off and laugh at the same time. Hate and guilt are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose.
-How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
-The judgments prevent us from seeing the good that is behind appearances.
-No one knows enough to be a pessimist.
-You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
-There are only two basic emotions: one is fear, the other is love.
-Your children know you more by the way you live than by what you say.
-The components of anxiety, stress, fear and hatred do not exist independently of you in the world.
-The conflict cannot survive without participation.
-When you stop making decisions, you enter the vast world of excuses.
-You cannot grow and develop if you know the answers before the questions.
-Doing what you love is the cornerstone of abundance in your life.
-I cannot always control what happens on the outside, but I can control what happens inside.
-Don't let the plans you have for yourself be more important than yourself.
-You are what you choose to be today. Not what you have chosen to be before.
-Value the present moment. Hold on to every moment of your life and savor it.
-We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.
-Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it.
-You are the one who determines what you are worth without having to explain to anyone.
-My goal is not to be better than someone, but to be better than I used to be.
-Live from day to day emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
-When you are inspired, you never wonder about your purpose. You are living it.
-When I was chasing money, I never had enough. When I had a purpose in life and I focused on giving of myself and everything that came into my life, then I was prosperous.
-Freedom means that you have no obstacles to living your life as you choose. Anything else is a form of slavery.
-When you dance, your purpose is not to reach a certain place in the sky. It is enjoying every step of the way.
-There is nothing wrong with anger as long as it is used constructively.
-Abundance is not something we acquire. It's something we tune in to.
-A peaceful mind, a mind focused and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
-If you are happy, if you live every moment, making the most of its possibilities, then you are an intelligent person.
-Remember that you cannot fail to be yourself.
-Feelings are not simple emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions that you choose to have.
-An intelligent person should be described as happy and effective on a day-to-day basis, who knows how to solve problems, creates resources, is autonomous, independent and overcomes adversity.
-You are responsible for what you think and what you feel, and you can learn to think differently about anything.
-In society it is well seen to treat others well and love them, however it forgets that in order to achieve happiness it is essential to love yourself and value yourself.
-Everything starts with loving yourself. That way you can love others and do things for them for the mere pleasure of being generous and without expecting anything in return.
-You choose the value you have and you do not have to ask or explain to anyone.
-You may want the approval of others, as it is natural to feel happy with the support and acceptance of others. But needing it is one of the most negative wrong zones.
- Change the "I am" to "I have chosen to be" to be the product of your choices.
-Two of the most useless emotions of all life are guilt for what has been done and worry about what will happen.
-As long as you are a human and live in this world, you can never have security. And if it were, it would be very boring. Safe eliminates excitement and excitement.
-If you believe in yourself, you can explore the areas of life that offer you nothing safe and avoid following the path that everyone else walks.
-All our lives are plagued with "you must do this" and people apply them without thinking about why and their consequences. The sum of all those "musts" is another wrong zone.
-Demanding justice is not a negative behavior, although it becomes the wrong zone if you punish yourself by not being able to have the justice you want.
-No need to shed a single drop of sweat to put off doing anything.
-In any human relationship in which two people become one, the result will always be two half people.
-If you enjoy the way you interact with people and they do not interfere with the goals you have set in life, you do not need to change that way of interacting.
-It is the obligation that constitutes the problem: the obligation produces guilt and dependence, while free choice produces love and independence.
-Being independent means being free from compulsory relationships, absence of behavior directed towards others, not needing someone to be happy.
-The only antidote to anger is the elimination of the internal phrase "If only you were more like me."
-There is no reason to feel anger, it is not something "human" as is usually justified and, in fact, it is a wrong area that psychologically incapacitates.
-A good remedy for anger is to help yourself and others to choose laughter and learn to observe from the outside the incongruous and absurd situations that occur in life.
-You have the ability to choose: anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have enough power to choose either of the two.
-The procrastination itself is not neurotic, but the emotional reaction that accompanies it and the immobilization that it produces.
-You can choose to be happy or unhappy, but this is not related to the injustice you see around you.