Denis Waitley Inspirational Quotations

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

Stop stewing and start doing!

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.