Motivational speaker quotes

Discover powerful words that inspire change and drive success with our collection of quotes from notable motivational speakers.

People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

- Earl Nightingale

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

- Robert Kiyosaki

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react, either positively or negatively.

- Earl Nightingale

Cynics criticize, and winners analyze.

- Robert Kiyosaki

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, you now have a motivated idiot.

- Jim Rohn

The most successful businesses usually do one of two things: a) Solve a problem or b) Fill a need

- Robert Kiyosaki

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

The antidote to fear is faith.

- Wayne Dyer

There is only one moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future experiences.

- Wayne Dyer

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

- Wayne Dyer

Syllogism ― Major premise: I can control my thoughts. Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts. Conclusion: I can control my feelings.

- Wayne Dyer

Frequently, avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future... When an event does not live up to your expectations you can get out of the depression by idealizing again. Do not let this vicious circle become your life-style. Interrupt it now with some strategic present-moment fulfillment.

- Wayne Dyer

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have.

- Wayne Dyer

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.

- Wayne Dyer

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

- Wayne Dyer

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

- Wayne Dyer

There is a story concerning the Buddha, who is in the company of a fellow traveler who tests this great teacher with derogatory, insulting, disparaging, and bitter responses to anything the Buddha says. Every day, for three days when the Buddha spoke, the traveler responded by calling him a fool, and ridiculing the Buddha in some arrogant fashion. Finally, at the end of the third day, the traveler could stand it no more. He asked, How is it that you are able to be so loving and kind when all I’ve done for the past three days is dishonor and offend you? Each time I am disobliging to you, you respond in a loving manner. How is this possible? The Buddha responded with a question of his own for the traveler. "If someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept that gift, to whom does the gift belong?

- Wayne Dyer

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

- Wayne Dyer

Disease doesn’t exist. Instead of thinking of it as a disease think of it for a moment as energy, with a frequency. It is energy with a frequency that is inhabiting your body that is not in harmony with the frequency at which your body was created in association with God. It’s just an incompatible frequency that’s all it is. It’s just a frequency that if it continues to occupy your body, your body cannot survive.

- Wayne Dyer

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

- Wayne Dyer

Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.

- Wayne Dyer

As you think, so shall you be.

- Wayne Dyer

In fact, some people who rate very high marks on the ego-based indexes of success are the ones I find most difficult to be around—and totally uninspiring.

- Wayne Dyer

If you follow the herd, you’ll end up stepping in shit.

- Wayne Dyer

What you fight weakens you; what you cooperate with strengthens you.

- Wayne Dyer

The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.

- Wayne Dyer

Remember that every use of force, even the smallest, creates a counterforce.

- Wayne Dyer

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

- Norman Vincent Peale

Rather than looking for miracles, shift to seeing everything as miraculous.

- Wayne Dyer

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you`re alone with.

- Wayne Dyer