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Quotes by Denis Waitley


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

It's not who you are that holds you back...it's who you think you're not.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
– Denis Waitley
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... not moving toward excellence.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Chase your passion, not your pension.
– Denis Waitley
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
– Denis Waitley
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
– Denis Waitley
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
– Denis Waitley
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
– Denis Waitley
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
– Denis Waitley
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
– Denis Waitley
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
– Denis Waitley
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
– Denis Waitley
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
– Denis Waitley
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
– Denis Waitley
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
– Denis Waitley
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
– Denis Waitley
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
– Denis Waitley
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
– Denis Waitley
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
– Denis Waitley
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
– Denis Waitley
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
– Denis Waitley
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
– Denis Waitley
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
– Denis Waitley
We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
– Denis Waitley
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
– Denis Waitley
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
– Denis Waitley
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
– Denis Waitley
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
– Denis Waitley
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
– Denis Waitley
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
– Denis Waitley
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
– Denis Waitley
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
– Denis Waitley
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
– Denis Waitley
You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
– Denis Waitley
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
– Denis Waitley
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.
– Denis Waitley
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
– Denis Waitley