Wayne Walter Dyer (b.1940) is an American self-help author and motivational speaker. Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to the late Melvin Lyle and Hazel Irene Dyer and spent much of his childhood in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit. After graduation from Denby High School Dyer served in the United States Navy from 1958 to 1962. He received his DEd degree in counseling from Wayne State University.
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Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others.
—Wayne Dyer
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Desires, Desire
When the leader trusts no one, no one trusts him.
—Wayne Dyer
In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.
—Wayne Dyer
Fear of failure becomes fear of success for those who never try anything new.
—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: Future, Living, The Present, Acting, Present
Be what it is that you are seeking.
—Wayne Dyer
We become what we think about all day long. The question is, ‘What do you think about?’
—Wayne Dyer
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Health
There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Opportunity, Work
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
—Wayne Dyer
Your genius is in your very existence,
awaiting the right circumstances to express itself.
—Wayne Dyer
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter.
—Wayne Dyer
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Life, Living
Genuinely feeling successful is possible when you detach yourself from the things you desire and allow them to flow to you—and through you.
—Wayne Dyer
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
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 can’t get sad enough to make one person joyful.
—Wayne Dyer
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Change
It’s never crowded on the extra mile.
—Wayne Dyer
Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.
—Wayne Dyer
Creativity means believing you have greatness.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Creativity, Greatness
In order to forgive you must have blamed. If you don’t blame there is nothing to forgive.
—Wayne Dyer
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Science, Attitude
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