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
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
—Denis Waitley
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Worth
Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Money
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Responsibility
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Identity
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
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
—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
Topics: Health
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Criticism
Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Knowledge
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
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Sharing, Smile
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
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
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
—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
Topics: Happiness
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
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
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Excellence, Achievement
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Hypocrisy, Perspective, Gratitude
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Energy, Desires
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
—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
Topics: Energy, Effort
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Success & Failure
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
Tomorrow’s leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don’t sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Responsibility
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Children
Chase your passion, not your pension.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Passion
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
—Denis Waitley
Topics: Choice
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