Quotes By Denis Waitley

Chase your passion, not your pension.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

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.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

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

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

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

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

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

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

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.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

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

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.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

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

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.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

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.

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

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.

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.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

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

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.