Denis Waitley Quotes

Stop stewing and start doing!

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

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.

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

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

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

The ability to adapt is everything!

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

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

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

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

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

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

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!

Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

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

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.