You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Assumptions, Commitment
Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Goals
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Identity
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: The Past, Future, Past
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Purpose
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Effort, Achievement
A failure is like fertiliser; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
—Denis Waitley
You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Belief
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
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Success & Failure
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. Success depends upon using it wisely—by planning and setting priorities.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Time, Time Management, Value of Time
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
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Change
Chase your passion, not your pension.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Passion
Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Money
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: Enthusiasm, Excitement
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
Topics: Planning
Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Knowledge
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Desires, Energy
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Integrity
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Children
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Worth
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
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Failure, Adversity
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Imagination, Innovation
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
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
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Satisfaction
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Mistakes
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
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