Quotes By Denis Waitley

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

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.

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

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

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

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

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

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.

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.

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

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

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.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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

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 the responsibility for changing them.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

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.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.