Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

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.

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

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.

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

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.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

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

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.

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.