Denis E. Waitley (b.1933) is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author. Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, He was a founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.
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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
Topics: Fear, Procrastination, Success
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
Topics: Persistence, Perseverance
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
Topics: Teams, Teamwork
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Achievement, Effort
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Satisfaction
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
Topics: Excellence
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
Topics: Failure
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Mistakes, Experience
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
Topics: Health
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
—Denis Waitley
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Choice, Decisions, Decision
You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Belief
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
Topics: Effort, Energy
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Winners, Winning
A failure is like fertiliser; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
—Denis Waitley
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Integrity
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Choice
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
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
—Denis Waitley
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… not moving toward excellence.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Learning
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Change, Acceptance
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
Topics: Happiness
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Gratitude, Hypocrisy, Perspective
Chase your passion, not your pension.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Passion
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Energy, Desires
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Attitude, Self Respect
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
Topics: Time Management, Existence, Time
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Determination
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Innovation, Imagination
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Promises, Integrity, Commitment
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