Denis Waitley

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.
Denis Waitley

Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis 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.
Denis Waitley

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.
Denis Waitley

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

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

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

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

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

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley

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

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

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

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Denis Waitley

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

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.
Denis Waitley

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.
Denis 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.
Denis Waitley

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley

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

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

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

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

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.
Denis Waitley

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

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

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

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.
Denis Waitley

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