American motivational speaker, writer and consultant
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Denis Waitley
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. – Denis Waitley
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. – Denis Waitley
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. – Denis Waitley
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. – Denis Waitley
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. – Denis Waitley
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. – Denis Waitley
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. – 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
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define 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.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
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
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
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
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. – Denis Waitley
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. – Denis Waitley
Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. – 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
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
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. – Denis Waitley
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. – 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. Time and Time Management. – Denis Waitley
Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight. – Denis Waitley
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. – Denis Waitley
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. – 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. Risk
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. – 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
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. – 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
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. – 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. Expectation. – Denis Waitley
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. Self-esteem. – Denis Waitley
We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. – 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
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
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley
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
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – 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
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