Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

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

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

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!

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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