Denis Waitley Quotations | Page 2

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.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

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

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.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

The ability to adapt is everything!

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

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.

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

Real power comes by empowering others.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

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

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

Profit is the celebration of service.

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

You can only do good if you feel good.

Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.

What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

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

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

The real risk is doing nothing.

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.

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

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

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

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

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.

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.