110+ Guy Finley Quotes On Success, Inspiring And Enlightening

Guy Finley is an American writer and self-help author. He is best known for his books on personal growth, spiritual development, and inner transformation. He is the founder of the nonprofit Life of Learning Foundation, which is dedicated to helping people discover their true purpose in life. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Guy Finley on leadership, success, life.

Top 10 Guy Finley Quotes

1. You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
2. Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
3. Love is effortless attention.
4. Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.
5. The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
6. Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
7. We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.
8. Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
9. Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.
10. Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

Guy Finley Short Quotes

• No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
• The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
• Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
• A crisis is a close encounter of the truthful kind.
• Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.
• If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
• Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
• No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!
• The Peace you long for also longs for you.
• Walk lightly through life.

Guy Finley Quotes About Life

Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all. — Guy Finley

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold. — Guy Finley

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. — Guy Finley

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started. — Guy Finley

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it. — Guy Finley

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears. — Guy Finley

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one. — Guy Finley

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life? — Guy Finley

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it. — Guy Finley

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed. — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Quotes About Love

Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows. — Guy Finley

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light. — Guy Finley

Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it. — Guy Finley

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment. — Guy Finley

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it. — Guy Finley

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love. — Guy Finley

We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life. — Guy Finley

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete. — Guy Finley

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Quotes About Inspiring

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind. — Guy Finley

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. — Guy Finley

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not. — Guy Finley

You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today. — Guy Finley

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. — Guy Finley

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. — Guy Finley

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly. — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Quotes About Strength

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. — Guy Finley

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. — Guy Finley

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness. — Guy Finley

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep. — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Quotes About Present

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future. — Guy Finley

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities. — Guy Finley

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it. — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Quotes About Change

The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power — Guy Finley

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears. — Guy Finley

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view. — Guy Finley

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost. — Guy Finley

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. — Guy Finley

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing. — Guy Finley

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change. — Guy Finley

Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging. — Guy Finley

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it. — Guy Finley

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over! — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Quotes About Possibilities

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion — Guy Finley

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible. — Guy Finley

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace. — Guy Finley

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now. — Guy Finley

Guy Finley Famous Quotes And Sayings

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today — Guy Finley

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. — Guy Finley

The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want? — Guy Finley

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein. — Guy Finley

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body! — Guy Finley

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again! — Guy Finley

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?" — Guy Finley

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be. — Guy Finley

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives. — Guy Finley

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere! — Guy Finley

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. — Guy Finley

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. — Guy Finley

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it. — Guy Finley

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company. — Guy Finley

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise. — Guy Finley

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry. — Guy Finley

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies. — Guy Finley

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life. — Guy Finley

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop. — Guy Finley

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender — Guy Finley

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self. — Guy Finley

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come. — Guy Finley

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention. — Guy Finley

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. — Guy Finley

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur. — Guy Finley

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same? — Guy Finley

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed. — Guy Finley

What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced! — Guy Finley

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself. — Guy Finley

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?" — Guy Finley

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself. — Guy Finley

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way. — Guy Finley

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. — Guy Finley

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do. — Guy Finley

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be. — Guy Finley

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you. — Guy Finley

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you. — Guy Finley

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature. — Guy Finley

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it. — Guy Finley

Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down. — Guy Finley

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it? — Guy Finley

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life. — Guy Finley

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today. — Guy Finley

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer. — Guy Finley

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings. — Guy Finley

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become. — Guy Finley

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal. — Guy Finley

Life can only be as new as you Choose to be. — Guy Finley

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content. — Guy Finley

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature. — Guy Finley

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self. — Guy Finley

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence. — Guy Finley

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you. — Guy Finley

Life Lessons by Guy Finley

1. Guy Finley teaches the importance of self-awareness and understanding our own thoughts and emotions. He encourages us to let go of fear and negativity and to focus on living a life of purpose and joy.
2. He emphasizes the need to take responsibility for our own lives and to be mindful of our choices and actions. He also encourages us to be kind and compassionate to ourselves and to others.
3. Finally, he advocates for the power of positive thinking and encourages us to make the most of every moment and to live with intention and purpose.