Denis Waitley Quotes

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Profit is the celebration of service.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

When you visualize, then you materialize.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

Your attitude is a choice you make.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

Instead of just letting life happen, I'm going to make it happen for me.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

If you're not networking, you're not networking.

Failure should be our teacher...

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.