Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

Failure should be our teacher...

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.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.

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

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

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

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.

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

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

One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

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

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

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

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

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

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.

On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

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

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

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

You are a masterpiece of creation.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

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

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.

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.

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

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

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

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

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

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.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the 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.

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.