Denis Waitley Quotations

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

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.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

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

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.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

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

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.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

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.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

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.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

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 price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body

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.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

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.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.