Denis Waitley

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

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

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.

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

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

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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

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

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

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.

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

Learm form the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they dont define them learn about them or even seriously consider them as believable or acheivable. Winners can tell you where they are going what they plan to do along the way and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

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

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Champions are propelled by desire not compelled by fear.

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

Winning is all in the attitude!

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

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

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.

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

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

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

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

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

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.

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

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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

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.

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

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.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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.

Courage means to keep working a relationship to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems and to stay focused during stressful periods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

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

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

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

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

If you believe you can you probably can. If you believe you wont you most assuredly wont. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

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

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

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

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

Your goal should be just out of reach, but not out of sight.

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.

The winners edge is all in the attitude not aptitude.

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

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

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

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.

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

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

Contentment is for cows a challenging purpose is for people.

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

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

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

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

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

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

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

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.

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

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

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

Dont dwell on what went wrong. Instead focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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

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

A good life is a collection of happy moments.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

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

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.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place.

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.