Denis Waitley Quotes

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

The ability to adapt is everything!

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

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Stop stewing and start doing!

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

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.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about 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.

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.

What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

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

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

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.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

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.

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

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

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.

One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

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

A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

If you're not networking, you're not networking.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

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

Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.