Top 380 Iyanla Vanzant Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

52. “If you don’t enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

53. “Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

54. “You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

55. “Every day is your day if you claim it.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

56. “I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

57. “The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

58. “A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

59. “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

60. “Black Girls rock because we have no other choice.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

61. “Planning is the only way to keep yourself on track. Plan your moments to be joyous. Plan your days to be filled with peace. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. When you know where you are going, the universe will clear a path for you.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

62. “Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

63. “Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

64. “When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

65. “You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?”

— Iyanla Vanzant

66. “Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don’t like about yourself.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

67. “When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

68. “The goal isn’t to be perfect, but to be authentic!”

— Iyanla Vanzant

69. “To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don’t know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

70. “We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

71. “When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

72. “Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God’s call in your soul.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

73. “You don’t get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

74. “When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

75. “Don’t get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it’s your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

76. “You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

77. “You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

78. “All things are lessons that God would have us learn.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

79. “Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

80. “Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

81. “We have a tendency to always test people’s love. ‘I want to see how badly I have to behave before you’ll leave me. Because I don’t really think you want me anyhow.’”

— Iyanla Vanzant

82. “If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?”

— Iyanla Vanzant

83. “Anger simply means that your personal power – your personal space, your personal sense of being – has been violated.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

84. “Transformation doesn’t have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine – laugh at yourself, learn and move on.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

85. “I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

86. “When your way doesn’t work, don’t be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn’t mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

87. “Change doesn’t have to be hard, and healing doesn’t have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

88. “Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

89. “You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

90. “Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

91. “I am the one I have been looking for.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

92. “You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don’t choose to be.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

93. “Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

94. “You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

95. “When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

96. “Live your life in PEACE, not in PIECES...”

— Iyanla Vanzant

97. “You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

98. “Sometimes on the journey, you step in dog poop. But you don’t let the whole journey be about the fact that your shoe got poop on it.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

99. “My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

100. “Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.”

— Iyanla Vanzant