Denis Waitley Quotes

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

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.

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

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

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

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

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

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

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

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

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

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.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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

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

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."

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

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.

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

Your attitude is a choice you make.

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

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

Profit is the celebration of service.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

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

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

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

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

Motivation is motive in action.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

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

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.