Denis Waitley Quotes

Winners are people with definite purpose in 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.

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.

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.

Failure should be our teacher..

Winning is all in the attitude!

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

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

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

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!

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

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

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

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.

Get out of that comfortable rut.

Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Winning is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.

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.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

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

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

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

People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.

Real power comes by empowering others.

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.

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.

The real risk is doing nothing.

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

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

Discipline is doing within, while you do without.

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

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up ...

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

Profit is the celebration of service.

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.

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

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

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

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

Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

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."

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Conceive + Believe = Achieve.

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.

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

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.

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

Your attitude is a choice you make.

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

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

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

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

A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.

A good life is a collection of happy moments.

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

Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.

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

View life as a continuous learning experience.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Stop stewing and start doing!

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

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.

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

Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

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

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

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.

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

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

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

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

Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

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