Speak Quotes

“Tunde, life comes in seasons,” she told me. “Everything shifts and changes. I try to get the most out of the season that I’m in, because I know I’ll never get it back.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“To build endurance, you have to endure.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“If you want to change things, you have to change things.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“A goal is a wish, but a standard holds you accountable.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“The beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“So much of the pain I’ve experienced in my life has been tied to love. To love is to accept pain, to take it in, to grow from it, and to love again.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Your mind is your strongest muscle. It holds the key to your belief about the way you feel and the way you see yourself.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“This is a season to acknowledge your value, your uniqueness. This is a season to see yourself fully for who you are. Be your own inspiration and then spark the light for others. Find your voice, trust your gut, and speak because we are all listening.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“It didn’t occur to me that I could learn on the job, that everyone has to start somewhere, and that I could be hired because of my potential, not because of my experience.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Whatever it is that makes you want to hide, you have two choices—learn to love it or change it.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Knowing what’s next keeps you knowing only what you know. Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“It's always easier once you get to the destination to forget about the hills and winding roads you had to take to get there, but I knew that there was a lot of doubt and desire and hope all mixed together on the way.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“When you leave a relationship at the right time, you can still cherish the good parts, but when you let it go on for too long, all that you're left with are the messy parts. It was difficult to remember the joy that we once had.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“When I look back at the biggest shifts in my life, doubt was always there. Think about the times when there was a big shift in your life. I’m going to guess you felt the same. Uncertainty, I’ve come to learn, has to exist to give you room to shift. To make room for opportunity to walk in the door.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“I learned how to be the gatekeeper of my own peace, my own energy.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“We can’t let fear of what isn’t disrupt what already is. Because with the risk of heartbreak is the greatest reward.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“There was such beauty, even in heartbreak, because of how much the love mattered. So much of the pain I’ve experienced in my life has been tied to love. To love is to accept pain, to take it in, to grow from it, and to love again.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“When you invest deep love in anyone, you risk great heartbreak.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“The best way to change was to make changes.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“My mind was my most powerful asset and my strongest muscle.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Life is short and everything is temporary.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“I can picture it, easily, but I would have liked to see it.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“We’d known for days that this was the end, but it was still difficult to accept that there as no miracle coming in the final hour.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“You are what you think you are, so you have to be mindful of what you think.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“The message we all get: what is right is what other people have, and what is wrong is what we are born with.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“When history reveals itself, we will either say we watched the world as it was being created, or we had a hand in its creation.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“The pain of saying nothing was worse than the pain of saying the wrong thing.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“Our purpose comes naturally to us. It’s the thing we feel we’re meant to do.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be