Denis Waitley
52 quotes
Biography
Denis E. Waitley was an American motivational speaker, writer and consultant.
"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."
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
"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."
"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."
"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."
"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."
"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."
"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them."
"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."
"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."
"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."
"The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything."
"Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time."
"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes."
"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."
"You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest."
"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."
"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."
"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile."
"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
"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."
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."
"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."