Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Denis Waitley (American Motivational Speaker)

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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The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Criticism

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 greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Parenting, Responsibility, Independence

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
Topics: Mistakes, Problem-solving, Persistence

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Winning, Winners

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: Adversity, Failure

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Responsibility

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

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Money

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: Attitude, Vision

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
Topics: Winning, Goal

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Purpose

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Belief

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
Topics: The Past, Past, Future

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Value

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Achievement, Effort

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: Perseverance, Persistence

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Energy, Desires

We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Regret

Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Knowledge

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

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Denis Waitley

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Mistakes, Experience

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Identity

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Change

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

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley
Topics: Mistakes

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
Topics: Imagination

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
Topics: Goals

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