Selected Quotes by Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer- Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. He completed a Guidance and Counseling degree at Wayne State University in 1970. He first worked as a high school guidance counselor before successfully running a private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. John's University where he was approached for a book deal.
His first book, "Your Erroneous Zones (1976)", became one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold. This launched his career as a motivational speaker and self-help author. He published 20 more best-selling books and produced a number of popular specials for PBS.
Influenced by thinkers such as Abraham Maslow and Albert Ellis, his early work focused on psychological themes such as motivation, self actualization and assertiveness, but the focus of his work had shifted to spirituality by the 1990s. He collaborated with alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra on a number of projects, and was a frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Quotes by Wayne Dyer:
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"If you don’t make peace with your past, it will keep showing up in your present."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves."
Wayne Dyer, Love
"I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not."
Wayne Dyer, Love
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."
Wayne Dyer, Love, Life
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
Wayne Dyer, Opportunities
"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."
Wayne Dyer, Opportunities, Problems
Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion."
Wayne Dyer, Goals
"Change the way you see things and the things you see will change."
Wayne Dyer, Goals
"My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be."
Wayne Dyer, Goals
"Don’t die with your music still in you."
Wayne Dyer, Goals, Music
"Never underestimate your power to change."
Wayne Dyer, Goals, Power
"It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."
Wayne Dyer, Criticism
"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
Wayne Dyer, Anger and Fighting
"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."
Wayne Dyer, Wealth
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about."