Tunde Oyeneyin Quotes

Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.

To build endurance, you have to endure.

If you want to change things, you have to change things.

A goal is a wish, but a standard holds you accountable.

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.

The beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility.

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.

Whatever it is that makes you want to hide, you have two choices—learn to love it or change it.

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.

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.

Your mind is your strongest muscle. It holds the key to your belief about the way you feel and the way you see yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

it is love that enables this mutual generosity of spirit; we have to nurture our

We all have a body. It’s the first thing that belongs to us. It’s where we live and how we move through the world, and our experience within it guides us into the different paths we take as we grow. When we transform it, it transforms us.

Every time I had a test or a public-speaking project or an interview, my mother said the same prayer for me: ‘May whatever Yetunde says be the right thing to say.’ There was freedom in that prayer, because even a mistake would be right. There would be some reason for it. It taught me to trust myself, so as I stood in front of that room, I started talking. The right words just poured through me. I knew what I was saying, but I wasn’t in control of it.

Throughout life, we choose the memories we store. Moments that seem insignificant gain value as time passes. We save a movie stub, then we find it in a coat pocket, it takes us back to where we were and who we were with in that moment.

That stress had felt so real, the choices so monumental. But ultimately, it was all opportunity. The chance had fallen into my lap, any outcome would have been okay.

Even when things don’t work out, they are working out, and it will work out, because everything is happening in your favor.

Without doubting where we are, we can’t realize where we need to be.

We have so many hopes and goals and to-dos on the path to accomplishing our dreams that we lose perspective on how far we’ve come.

The plan, after all, doesn’t always go according to the plan. If it looks like I haven’t failed, it’s because I choose not to see anything that happens to me as failure. To me, failure doesn’t exist. I imagine that failure is something we tell ourselves exists so we can quit. It’s an excuse to give up, to say ‘Oh, this did not work. I’m done.’ It creates a limit on what we think we can achieve. Just for a minute, think about what it would be like if we lived in a world where we had no option but to keep trying. If you know you could never fail, you would never stop trying. You wouldn’t have an out. There would be no end line to fantasize about. What if everything we think we’re not capable of is an illusion? Then the plan would always be to keep going. There would be so much more space for opportunity. What possibilities would that space invite in?

If you wait for one day, it may never come. If you give up because you don’t have what you want, you won’t recognize the opportunity.

When we feel insecure, why do we allow ourselves to forget our expertise? You know what you know, and you can carry those skills no matter where you go, into uncomfortable terrain. Limits are removed, results are open, and failure ceases to exist.

Every human interaction is a unique, moment in time in which we have the change to understand the person standing in front of us.

We may think we’re self-aware- who could know us better?- but sometimes we can’t see (or smell) ourselves as clearly as the people around us. Think about that- the moments where you can’t see what everyone else is seeing about you. You can’t see yourself because you’re too close to yourself.

He wasn’t gaining anything because of my loyalty, but I was losing something.

Once you put yourself on the sale rack, it’s hard to go back to full price.

Our purpose comes naturally to us. It’s the thing we feel we’re meant to do.

The pain of saying nothing was worse than the pain of saying the wrong thing.

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.

The message we all get: what is right is what other people have, and what is wrong is what we are born with.

You are what you think you are, so you have to be mindful of what you think.

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.

I can picture it, easily, but I would have liked to see it.

When I have wins or moments to celebrate I know what my parents would say, probably word for word, but just knowing what they would say doesn’t make up for them not being here to say it themselves.

Life is short and everything is temporary.

My mind was my most powerful asset and my strongest muscle.

The best way to change was to make changes.

When you invest deep love in anyone, you risk great heartbreak.

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.

We can’t let fear of what isn’t disrupt what already is. Because with the risk of heartbreak is the greatest reward.

My black skin is illuminated by the sun and it beams in the dark. My black skin does not shift and it does not alter. My black skin is my essence and it makes me myself.

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”.

You attract the energy that you are".

In Yoruba culture, they believe that the souls of our ancestors are reincarnated as new children in the same family. The youngest of Tosin’s kids, Tony, grew up in my mother’s arms. If someone tried to come between him and my mother, he’d nudge his little body between them. My mother never said that she saw Tope in Tony, but I know she found comfort in loving another little boy and holding him close.

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.

My character is richer and more powerful as a result of the choices I made in my most difficult hour. You can let your past dictate your story, or you can pull from it to create something new. Resilience is the process of adapting in the face of adversity, trauma, or tragedy.

You have to be open to taking any direction, or else when you’re thrown off course you won’t find the detour that helps you get back on track. The plan, after all, doesn’t always go according to plan. If it looks I haven’t failed, it’s because I choose not to see anything that happens as failure. To me, failure doesn’t exist.