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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Bravery, Courage
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
—Denis Waitley
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
Topics: Excitement, Enthusiasm
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Past, The Past, Future
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
Topics: Goal
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
—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
Topics: Achievement, Excellence
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
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Winners, Winning
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
—Denis Waitley
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Smile, Sharing
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
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
Topics: Present, The Present
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Success & Failure
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
Topics: Vision, Attitude
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
Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Money
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
Topics: Winning
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Enjoyment
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Integrity
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
Topics: Risk
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, Existence, Time Management
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: Procrastination, Fear, Success
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Choice, Decisions, Decision
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Thinking, Learning
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Health
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Desires, Energy
Chase your passion, not your pension.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Passion
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
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