115 [Best] Jay Shetty Quotes for Motivation

Jay is a former monk, bestselling author, and purpose coach. He was famous for hosting (On Purpose) podcast which had over 64 million downloads worldwide in the first year where he interviewed Kobe Bryant Khloe Kardashian and Alicia keys. 

He was invited on various talk shows and interviews like ‘A Little Late with Lilly’ with Lily Singh, ‘The Ellen DeGeneres show’ with Ellen Degeneres,  and ‘Today’ to discuss topics like life purpose, meditation, and mental health.

He also runs a motivational YouTube channel and holds more than 4 million subscribers count currently. Currently, by profession, he is a YouTube vlogger and a motivational speaker.

Jay is a British Indian. He was born on 6th September 1987. He grew up in north London along with his parents and his younger sister.

He did his schooling at Queen Elizabeth School, Barnet, London. And then went to the Cass Business School, University of London. He is currently living in California, Los Angles with his wife Radhika Devlukia Shetty

at his business school, jay met Gauranga Das, a monk invited to give a speech on selflessness and minimalist lifestyle approach. He spoke to Gauranga das and after his talk, he decided to follow das for the remaining lectures circuit around the United Kingdom.

He spent 4 summers in India interning at the corporations and training with the “international society for Krishna’s consciousness”, known as the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishna’s, and 3 years  living a lifestyle of a Vedic monk at an ashram in Mumbai, India 

Shetty got married to his girlfriend Radhika Devlukia Shetty in April 2016. He met Radhika through his sister, at that time jay was a tattooed monk and he did know little about romance but Radhika saw him as a person she could date in the future.

Radhika Devlukia Shetty runs an Instagram page as well as a YouTube channel where she posts motivational content very often.

Jay Shetty Quotes

We have curated a collection of Best Jay Shetty Quotes on Love, Life & Relationships that will motivate and inspire you to lead the best Life.

  • I believe that you can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else. It’s like what Buddha said: “resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die”.
  • We need to redefine what success means. Let’s not make happiness and success about the size of our homes, but about the size of our heart. Let’s not make it about gratification, but gratitude.
  • No matter how many times life will tread on you. Life will crumple you, life will scrunch you, and life will squeeze you. You will always keep your value, that spark within us, all of bliss, knowledge and eternity that exists, that spark will never be taken away.
  • If you’re looking around and you find yourself being the smartest person in the room, change rooms because you’re in the wrong one. You want to be around people who lift up the way you think, who lift up your mindset, who really take you to new dimensions and horizons that you can never ever imagine yourself.
  • “Motivation comes from meaning. Everything comes from meaning.” Jay Shetty
  • Yet in a world with so much information, we’re somehow still missing the wisdom of life.
  • We complain that nothing feels real anymore, but we don’t give anything time to become real.
  • We complain nothing has depth, but we don’t allow things space to deepen.
  • Starve Your distractions, feed your focus.
  • Failure is just a sign that we need to widen our scope. We need to be ready and build ourselves up for the next level. Actually, what we end up achieving is far greater than what we’d envisioned for ourselves.
  • Often all of us are greeted in life by boulders on our path – whether it’s in our careers, whether it’s in our relationships – and what we need to remind ourselves at that point is that we can either be like the people who complained and criticize or be like this one person who decided to move the boulder and see every point of adversity as an opportunity for growth.
  • We don’t know who we want to become, because we’re too distracted by who everyone else is becoming.
  • Don’t live for the approval of others. Documents the moments you’re most in love with yourself, not just the moments you think people will love the most.
  • “When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.” Jay Shetty
  • “Starve your distractions, feed your focus.” Jay Shetty
  • We force ourselves out of bed to live the same day again and again and call it a life.
  • Failures are only failures when we don’t learn from them, because when we learn from them they become lessons.
  • You don’t know what you need in your life until you figure out who you are.
  • Never judge anyone, because you never know how their life is and what they go through.
  • Our words have more power than we even believe. Our words define our reality. We need to pick them carefully. Make sure you taste your words before you spit them out.
  • What if Oprah listened to her haters and doubters? What if Steve Jobs settled for a real job? What if The Rock never broke through depression? What if Ellen never overcame the bullying? Imagine a world where everyone lived their passion. We would be better people. We’d be better partners. We’d be better parents.
  • “Don’t let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.” Jay Shetty
  • “Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.” Jay Shetty“Don’t be afraid of new beginnings, from new people, new energy, new surroundings, and new challenges. Embrace new chances at happiness.” Jay Shetty
  • “The interesting thing is, those opinions didn’t change the world, but the people behind the ideas did.” Jay Shetty
  • People who care will ask how you’re doing. People who love you will wait untill you tell the truth.
  • Life and time are the best two teachers. Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.
  • The way we communicate says it all. We spend more time holding our phones than we hold each other. We ask Google more question than we ask each other
  • A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we stop talking about each other and start talking to each other.
  • I make decisions based on intuition and insight, heart and head. I lead with my heart and observe enough so that my head can catch up.
  • “The thing about limitations is that they are only true as long as you believe in them. So, instead of believing in your limitations, start believing in yourself.” Jay Shetty
  • “I’m always opening 1000 doors. Everyone sees the 10 that stay open. That’s the key to growth.” Jay Shetty
  • “If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.” Jay Shetty
  • Many of us are experiencing setbacks and failures in everyday life. Eventually, we get emotionally drained, tired, unmotivated and we stop trying. We believe that because we’ve been unsuccessful in the past that that barrier still exist even for new ventures. In other words, we continue to see a barrier in our head that separates us from our dreams, even though there is no real barrier between where we are and where we want to go. Remember this, the teacher has failed more times than the student has even tried.
  • Do you know what WE stands for? Without Ego. When we say “WE” we’re choosing to work with others Without Ego.
  • Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but make sure it does not replace you as the driver.
  • The challenges we all want to be with someone who makes us happy, when what we need to do is be some who makes us happy.
  • We spend the whole day trying to get our work on time, but then spend all of our time thinking about work.
  • Forgiveness doesn’t excuse the behavior, but it prevents the behavior from negatively affecting us.
  • You can take a fish out of water and give it a beautiful mansion and a Bentley and all the money in the world, but it will die and that’s what we are like, our environment. Everyone is in an environment in which they thrive, which we have to craft.
  • “I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because I’m still looking for ideas.” Jay Shetty
  • “Swap ‘Why is this happening to me?’ to ‘What is this trying to teach me?’. It will change everything.” Jay Shetty
  • “Many of us are experiencing setbacks and failures in everyday life. Eventually, we get emotionally drained, tired, unmotivated and we stop trying. We believe that because we’ve been unsuccessful in the past that that barrier still exists even for new ventures.” Jay Shetty
  • “Reading changes your mind, applying changes your life!” Jay Shetty
  • “A monk is simply a traveler, except the journey is inwards.” Jay Shetty
  • “If you could be more creative, what would you use it for?” Jay Shetty
  • “What if Oprah listened to her haters and doubters? What if Steve Jobs settled for a real job? What if The Rock never broke through depression? What if Ellen never overcame the bullying? Imagine a world where everyone lived their passion. We would be better people. We’d be better partners. We’d be better parents.” Jay Shetty
  • “Let’s not make happiness and success about the size of our homes, but about the size of our hearts; let’s not make it about gratification but gratitude.” Jay Shetty
  • “Success comes from gaining, happiness comes from giving.” Jay Shetty
  • I’ve never seen a strong person with an easy past. We all have a passion. We all have a genius inside us. We have that potential.
  • We live for the weekEND but then END up feeling WEAK.
  • We may not be the best, but if we keep going longer we will better ourselves.
  • It’s amazing what we can do when our passion meet a purpose greater than our self. That’s why we need to explore our curiosity. Invest in what interest us. Follow what intrigues us.
  • When a child is learning how to walk and falls down 50 times, it never stops and thinks to itself this isn’t for me . . . We need to learn to fail like a child.
  • Motivation comes from meaning. Everything comes from meaning.
  • We speak about being healthy and our well-being, but we act more like human doings than we do like human beings. Therefore, instead of to-do lists we need to-be lists. Instead of thinking about what you want to do, think about who you want to be. Do you want to be more self-aware? Do you want to be more conscious? Do you want to be a better person? Do you want to be a difference in the world? We need to move away from what we want to do in situations to who we want to be in situations.
  • Failure has the ability to lure success. Countless failures almost draw kickers to success and every time you walked through one door the gate gets bigger and the lock gets tighter.
  • “Fast-forward where you are. Look at yourself in 10, 15, 20 years time and ask yourself the question: Is that where I want to be? If you’re in a company, look at the person who’s 20 years ahead of you and ask yourself: Is that where I want to be? If you’re in a start-up, look at where other startups have got to in similar roles and go: Is that where I want to be? And if the answer’s NO, then you need to find a new path.” Jay Shetty
  • “Real friends tell you when you aren’t living up to your potential. They don’t let you sit and be mediocre and think you are lit.” Jay Shetty
  • “Think about what you can do right now, not what you wish you had done before.” Jay Shetty
  • We all experience insecurities in work, relationships, friendships and even family. And what that happens, we let insecurities completely destroy something amazing . . . Don’t let insecurity ruins something amazing.
  • People are so far removed from their own understanding of themselves that they were either lost living a life that they didn’t want to, lost living up to someones expectations or lost becoming someone to impress someone else. Their real identity is almost buried under 6 feet of multiple identities that they created.
  • Everything in life happens according to our time our clock. You may look at some of your friends and think that they’re ahead of you. Maybe some of them you feel are behind, but everything happens at their own pace. They have their own time and clock and so do you. Be patient.
  • Fast-forward where you are. Look at yourself in 10, 15, 20 years time and ask yourself the question: Is that where I want to be? If you’re in a company, look at the person who’s 20 years ahead of you and ask yourself: Is that where I want to be? If you’re in a start-up, look at where other startups have got to in similar roles and go: Is that where I want to be? And if the answer’s NO, then you need to find a new path.
  • What we’re searching for is not out there, but it’s inside. Therefore, happiness is actually an inside job.
  • It’s amazing how that time, that unforgotten, that invisible world, beyond the bottom of the iceberg, underneath the water, the part you don’t see, is actually what made what you see today possible.
  • Forgiveness and letting go and the ability to rise above the challenges that have been caused by others in our life is such an important ability because we need to learn to accept apologies that we never received.
  • What we need to recognize is that the things that we truly want, the things that are deeply meaningful, the things that are genuinely fulfilling, all require patience. They all require work. They all require energy.
  • “It’s important to figure out who you’re not, in order  to figure out who you are.” Jay Shetty
  • “If you’re looking around and you find yourself being the smartest person in the room, change rooms because you’re in the wrong one.” Jay Shetty
  • “The best lesson I have learned in life came from the worst feeling I ever felt in life.” Jay Shetty
  • The thing about limitations is that they are only true as long as you believe in them. So, instead of believing in your limitations, start believing in yourself.
  • Don’t worry about what anyone else is doing. Your life is about growing yourself and investing in yourself and reaching your true potential. You are not in competition with anyone else.
  • We should never let compliments get to our head and never let criticism get to our heart because when we do that we can start to build with genuineness and authenticity. When we’re humble, we can actually grow and rise up and always feel that we’re learning, always feel that we’re developing, always feel that someone can share insight at any moment that can change our lives.
  • The person that we will become in five years is defined by the people that we spend time with today and the books that we read today.
  • The same technology that brings us close to those far away, takes us far away from the people that are actually close.
  • “Failures are only failures when we don’t learn from them, because when we learn from them they become lessons.” Jay Shetty
  • “Actually, I have a challenge for you: what’s the craziest thing you can think of? An idea that can change the world?” Jay Shetty
  • “You cannot transform that which you do not accept.” Jay Shetty
  • “When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little.” Jay Shetty
  • “The paradox of our times is that we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but less solutions.” Jay Shetty
  • “We may not be the best, but if we keep going longer we will better ourselves.” Jay Shetty
  • “Your new life will cost you your old one.” Jay Shetty
  • It’s not about how slow you go, just as long as you don’t stop.
  • When we realize that we’re students for life, instead of making people see how powerful we are, we want people to understand how powerful they are. We’ll learn how to empower others. We will actually attract people to work with us to achieve our goals.
  • Whatever is taken for granted, will eventually be taken away.
  • Often we’re so engrossed in the work that we forget to value, appreciate and recognize those that we’re actually working for. We get so wrapped up in our own lives that we forget the people that make up our life.
  • No one is you and that’s your superpower, that’s what makes ‘you’, you, that’s what makes you unique, that’s what it is about you that will make a difference in the world.
  • “What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it.” Jay Shetty
  • “You are still young and you aren’t supposed to have your whole life figured out yet. Don’t stress. Everything will work out.” Jay Shetty
  • “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but make sure it does not replace you as the driver.” Jay Shetty
  • Don’t let someone be a priority when all you are to them is an option.
  • People who care will ask you how you are doing, people who love will wait until you tell the truth.
  • I don’t want to be madly in love ever again. I want to be healthy in love. Sanely in love, peacefully in love.
  • A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we stop talking about each and other and start talking to each other.
  • We must keep the promises that we make to ourselves so that we can keep those promises that we make to others.
  • Your peace is more important than driving yourself crazy trying to understand why something happened that way it did. LET IT GO
  • Remember, the wound is the place where light enters us.
  • Some people love you but don’t tell you, some people will tell you but don’t love you.
  • Love will always come back to you. Just not always from the people you give it to or expect it from. Keep being and giving love.
  • Sometimes you have to feel the pain to heal the pain.
  • Everything makes sense, even if you can’t make sense of it right now. Don’t judge the moment.
  • Everything will happen for you all of a sudden and you will be thankful you didn’t give up. Blessings are coming. Believe that.
  • Your new life cost YOU your OLD one.
  • Don’t worry about rejections. All you need is one person to say yes.
  • Never run back to what broke you.
  • Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world. Even your shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
  • Many of us are experiencing setbacks and failures in everyday life. Eventually, we get emotionally drained, tired, unmotivated and we stop trying. We believe that because we’ve been unsuccessful in the past that barrier still exists even for new ventures.
  • Starve your distractions, feed your focus.
  • It’s important to figure out who you are not in order to figure out who you are.
  • Everyone has a different clock. Wait for your time.
  • Choose people who choose you.
  • The secret to having it all is knowing you already do.
  • What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it.
  • A monk is simply a traveler. Except the journey is inwards.
  • Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet to use them as stepping stones.

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