Denis Waitley Self Quotations

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

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