Quotes By Denis Waitley

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 make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

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

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

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.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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.

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.

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

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