Inspirational Quotes by Wayne Dyer (American Self-help Author)

Inspirational Quotations by Wayne Dyer (American Self-help Author)

Wayne Walter Dyer (1940–2015) was an American self-help and spiritual author and a motivational speaker popular on public radio and television programs. His phenomenally successful first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976,) became well known.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Dyer received his Ed.D. degree in counseling from Wayne State University and taught at St. John’s University in New York. As a young psychotherapist in Maui, he published his pop psychology tome Your Erroneous Zones: Step-By-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life (1976.) To help advertise, Dyer journeyed around America, selling it out of the trunk of his car, pestering bookshops, and giving radio interviews till it became a success. Your Erroneous Zones has sold an estimated 100 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books ever. Banking on its success, Dyer became a champion of “New Age” concepts such as “living in the moment” and making “choices that bring us to a higher awareness.”

Dyer produced more than 40 books borrowing from eastern spirituality and blending in some Christian ideologies. His notable books include W. Real Magic (1993,) Your Sacred Self (1996,) Wisdom of the Ages (1998,) Being in Balance (2006,) Excuses Begone! (2009,) and I Can See Clearly Now (2014.)

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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Worry

A transcendent being can be any miracle.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Miracles

The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Spirit, Power

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Money

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Will Power

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life’.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Habits

Fear of failure becomes fear of success for those who never try anything new.
—Wayne Dyer

Softly and kindly remind yourself, “I cannot own anything.” It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Attachment

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: One liners, Decisions, Choices

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Success & Failure, Prosperity

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Serenity

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Attitude, Control

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Anger

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: The Present

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
—Wayne Dyer

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Change

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Abundance, Wealth

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Choices, Motivation, Choice

Your genius is in your very existence,
awaiting the right circumstances to express itself.
—Wayne Dyer

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is “the quiet acceptance of what is.”
—Wayne Dyer

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Acting, Living, Future, The Present, Present

I am realistic, I expect miracles.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Miracles

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Life, Give, People, Live, God, Great, Power, Greatness, Spirit

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
Topics: Anger

The Wright brothers didn’t contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn’t contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don’t have.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Communication, Yin

As William Penn put it: “Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” Remember… that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Ego

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: The Mind, Mind

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Body

Success is not something you get out of what you do.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Action, Carpe-diem, Graduation, Future, Promises