Denis Waitley Quotes

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Conceive + Believe = Achieve.

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

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

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

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

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

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.

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

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

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

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.

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

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

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

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!

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.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

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

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

Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.

You can only do good if you feel good.

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

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

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.

The real risk is doing nothing.

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

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.