Denis Waitley quotes:

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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.

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.

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

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

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.

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

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

The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

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.

Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

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.

The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.

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.

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.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

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!

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

The real risk is doing nothing.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.

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

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

Real power comes by empowering others.

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

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

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

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

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

Procrastination is the fear of success.

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

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

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

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

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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 truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

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

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

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

Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

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.

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

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.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

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

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

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

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

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

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

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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.