Denis Waitley Quotes

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Talent, Attitude)

"You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Expertise, Gain, Thinking)

"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Mistakes, Past)

"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Perspective, Value)

"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Conviction)

"You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing."
- Denis Waitley

"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Actions, Credit, Responsibility)

"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Change)

"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Achievement, Approval)

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Children, Independence, Gifts, Responsibility)

"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Experience, Life, Love)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Beauty, Life, Time, Truth, Goodness, Will)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Winning, Effort, Energy, Persistence)

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Success, Poor)

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Future, Past, Present)

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Forget, Self)

"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Self, Talk)

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Change, Success, Failure, Consequences, Direction, Forget)

"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Mistakes)

"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Body, Endurance)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Thoughts, Waking, Will)

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Choices, Responsibility)

"You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Integrity)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Time, Successful, Energy, Existence)

"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Rest)

"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Dream)

"When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Goal, Energy, Will)

"Winners are people with definite purpose in life."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, People, Purpose)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Art, Work, Ability, Artist, Perspective)

"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Time, Work)

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Imagination, Dreams, Innovation, Reason, World)

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Health, Time)

"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Satisfaction)

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Happiness, Fulfillment, Pursuit)

"Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Nothing)

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."
- Denis Waitley

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Failure, Being, Defeat, Delay, End, Nothing, Saying)

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Change)

"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Dream, Excitement, Fire, Taste)

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Focus, Wrong)

"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Feet, Man)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Time, Manager, Goal, Goals)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Belief)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Goals, Energy, Focus)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Difference, Eyes)

"Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: 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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Nothing, Risk)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Time, Goals, Future, Now, Past)

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Experience, Happiness, Love, Gratitude, Grace, Living, Spiritual)

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Caring, Light, Sharing, Smile)

"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Desire, Energy, Will)

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Body, Expectations, Limitations, Mind, Will)

"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Project)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Time, Day, Destiny, Persistence, Pursuit, Will)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Purpose, Man, Satisfaction, Woman)

"Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Experience, Life, Expertise, Learning)

"Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Time, Career, Majority)

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Decision, Children)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Fame, Fortune, Integrity, Light, May, Years)

"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."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Life, Dream, Vision, Comfort, Future, Zone)

"Chase your passion, not your pension."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Passion)

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Effort, Results, Will)

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Courage, Problems)

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Determination)

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Experience, Mistakes, Years)