Dennis Waitley

40 quotes

"When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turndown of the performer."

Dennis Waitley

"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."

Dennis Waitley

"Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show."

Dennis Waitley

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Dennis Waitley

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

Dennis Waitley

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

Dennis 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."

Dennis Waitley

"Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience."

Dennis Waitley

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."

Dennis Waitley

"You must stick to your convictions, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."

Dennis Waitley

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not."

Dennis Waitley

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."

Dennis Waitley

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

Dennis Waitley

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

Dennis Waitley

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Dennis Waitley

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

Dennis Waitley

"As long as we are persistent 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."

Dennis Waitley

"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."

Dennis Waitley

"The greatest achievements are those that benefit others."

Dennis Waitley

"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."

Dennis Waitley

"When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turndown of the performer."

Dennis Waitley

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Dennis Waitley

"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."

Dennis Waitley

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Dennis 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."

Dennis Waitley