Denis Waitley famous 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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Moving On #Moving Forward #Focus

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

#Change #Accepting #Unchangeable

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

#Successful #Inspire #Inspire Others

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

#Past #Loser #Winner

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

#Trying #Impressive #Impress

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

#Alive #Lessons #Process

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

#Positive #Believe #Pads

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

#Smile #Caring #Light

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Wall #Motivation #Real

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Successful #Pie #Numbers

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
-- Denis Waitley

#Envy #Criticism #Bears

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

#Encouraging #Views #Experts

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

#Failure #Next #Forget

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

#Risk #Doing Nothing #Cost

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
-- Denis Waitley

#Opportunity

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Asking Questions #Phones #Waiting

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
-- Denis Waitley

#Perspective #Looks #Values

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

#Teacher #Failure #Saying Nothing

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

#Success #Faces #Limitation

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

#Change #Positive #Responsibility

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
-- Denis Waitley

#Integrity #Commitment #Promise

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

#Love #Positive #Spiritual

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
-- Denis Waitley

#Motivational #Failure #Greatness

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.
-- Denis Waitley

#Goal #Energy #Source

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

#Inspirational #Achievement #Approval

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

#Disappointment #Worst #Plans

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Regret #Sweat #Tears

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
-- Denis Waitley

#Two #Action #Busters

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

#Happiness #Pursuit Of Happiness #Pursuit

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

#Dream #Self Confidence #Creative

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

#Retirement #Children #Responsibility

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

#Real #Needs #Imitation

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

#Determination #Giving #Spite

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

#Names #Excellence #Tests

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
-- Denis Waitley

#Inspirational #Play #Age

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
-- Denis Waitley

#Loser #Winner

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

#Jobs #Work #Giving

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Thinking #Goal #Choices

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear
-- Denis Waitley

#Achievement #Champion #Desire

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

#Goal #Certain #Comparison

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

#People #Challenges #Rust

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

#Health #Two #Appreciate

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

#Secret #Mind #Body

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

#Motivational #Effort #Achieve

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Time #Past #Opportunity

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

#Children #Parenting #Giving

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

#Art #Perspective #Steps

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

#Worthy

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

#Yesterday #May #Tomorrow

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Champion #Deeds #Action

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Inspirational #Real #Important

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

#Self Esteem #Opinion #Individual

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
-- Denis Waitley

#Trying #Doing Nothing #Succeed

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

#Doors #Giving #Path

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

#Integrity #Lines #Profit

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

#Dust #Ashes #Goodness

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

#Responsibility #Achievement #Credit

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.
-- Denis Waitley

#Attitude #Firsts

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

#Essence #Life Is #Worthwhile

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Night #Desire #Would Be

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."
-- Denis Waitley

#Motivational #Thinking #Games

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

#Quality #Crowds #Lasting

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

#Able #Easier

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Children #Years #Cities

Your best friend should bring out the best in you
-- Denis Waitley

#Inspirational #Your Best Friend #Should

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
-- Denis Waitley

#People #Purpose #Winner

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

#Dream #Believe #Successful

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

#Children #Growth #Important

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

#Beginners #Winner

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

#Important #Three #Three Words

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Running #Past #Long

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.
-- Denis Waitley

#Blame #Loser #Problem

Real power comes by empowering others.
-- Denis Waitley

#Real #Empowering #Empowering Others

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.
-- Denis Waitley

#Winning #Feelings #Ceilings

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

#Truth Is #Habit #Break

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

#Goal #Waiting #Fruit

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Lying #Needs #Tools

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

#Successful #Energy #Elements

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
-- Denis Waitley

#Accountability #Life Is

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

#Positivity #Giving #Important

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

#Eye #Differences #Vision

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

#Sports #Giving #Endurance

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

#Dream #Imagination #Innovation

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

#Spring #Winning #Desire

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

#Inspirational #Goal #Focus

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

#Positive #Thinking #Hands

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

#Thinking #Experts #Gains

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

#Attitude #Sight #Goal

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

#Choices

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

#Sticks #Assumption #Conviction

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.
-- Denis Waitley

#Relationship #Passion #Quality

View life as a continuous learning experience.
-- Denis Waitley

#Inspiration #Views #Learning Experience

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.
-- Denis Waitley

#Sports #Communication #Skills

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.
-- Denis Waitley

#Dream #Effort

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Mean #People #Majority

Come through for others and they will come through for you.
-- Denis Waitley

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.
-- Denis Waitley

#Appreciation #Pride #Effort

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

#Strong #Successful #Hands

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

#People

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

#Knowing #Rely On Yourself #Rely