Denis waitley quotes

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

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

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

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

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

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

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

SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

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

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

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Stop stewing and start doing!

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.

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

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

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

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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

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!

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

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

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

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

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.

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.

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

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

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

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.

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

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

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

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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

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

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

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

View life as a continuous learning experience.

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

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

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

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

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

When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body

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.

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

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

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

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.

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

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

Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

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.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

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.

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

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

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.

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

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

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

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.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

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

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

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

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

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

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

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.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

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.

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

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.

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

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

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

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.

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.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

The real risk is doing nothing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

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.

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.'

Don't 'take care', take a risk!

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

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

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.