Denis Waitley was an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known for his book The Psychology of Winning and his audio series Seeds of Greatness. He was a popular motivational speaker, speaking to corporations, sports teams, and the military. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Denis Waitley on education, life, leadership.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
motivational quote by Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quotes About Life
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. — Denis Waitley
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. — Denis Waitley
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
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. — Denis Waitley
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
The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth. — Denis Waitley
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
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
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. — Denis Waitley
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. — Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quotes About Love
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. — Denis Waitley
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn. — Denis Waitley
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! — Denis Waitley
A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around. — Denis Waitley
Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you! — Denis Waitley
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
You must feel love within, before you can share it. — Denis Waitley
The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others. — Denis Waitley
Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away. — Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quotes About Inspiring
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves. — Denis Waitley
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future. — Denis Waitley
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Imagination plus innovation equals realization. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them — Denis Waitley
You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life. — Denis Waitley
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure. — Denis Waitley
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad — Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quotes About Success
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. — Denis Waitley
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. — Denis Waitley
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself. — Denis Waitley
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. — Denis Waitley
Procrastination is
the fear of success. — Denis Waitley
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
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success. — Denis Waitley
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. — Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quotes About Winners
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. — Denis Waitley
Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem. — Denis Waitley
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. — Denis Waitley
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
Losers let it happen; winners make it happen! — Denis Waitley
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. — Denis Waitley
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. — Denis Waitley
Winners are people with definite purpose in life. — Denis Waitley
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
Denis Waitley Quotes About Lives
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
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
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
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. — Denis Waitley
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy. — Denis Waitley
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. — Denis Waitley
Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now! — Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Quotes About Energy
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley
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
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
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
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. — Denis Waitley
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself. — Denis Waitley
Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times — Denis Waitley
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
Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now. — Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley Famous Quotes And Sayings
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
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. — Denis Waitley
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. — Denis Waitley
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
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' — Denis Waitley
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
You become that to which you are most exposed. — Denis Waitley
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job. — Denis Waitley
Time is the most precious element of human existence. — Denis Waitley
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person. — Denis Waitley
View life as a continuous learning experience. — Denis Waitley
We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. — Denis Waitley
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. — Denis Waitley
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. — Denis Waitley
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times. — Denis Waitley
The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can! — Denis Waitley
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. — Denis Waitley
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself. — Denis Waitley
Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target. — Denis Waitley
Real power comes by empowering others. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them. — Denis Waitley
The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action — Denis Waitley
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
What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. — Denis Waitley
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny. — Denis Waitley
As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person. — Denis Waitley
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today. — Denis Waitley
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. — Denis Waitley
Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on. — Denis Waitley
Life Lessons by Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley teaches us to focus on our personal growth and development, to be persistent in the face of adversity, and to take responsibility for our own actions.
He encourages us to be mindful of our thoughts and actions, to be proactive in our approach to life, and to strive for excellence in all that we do.
He emphasizes the importance of having a positive attitude, of taking risks and learning from our mistakes, and of being open to new experiences and opportunities.
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