Denis Waitley Quotes

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

By: Denis Waitley

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... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler... view

By: Denis Waitley

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: 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... view

By: 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... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons... view

By: Denis Waitley

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives... view

By: Denis Waitley

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do... view

By: Denis Waitley

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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... view

By: Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb... view

By: Denis Waitley

Winners are people with definite purpose in life... view

By: 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... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: 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... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: 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... view

By: 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... view

By: Denis Waitley

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

By: Denis Waitley