Denis Waitley Quotes & Sayings

Your best friend should bring out the best in you — Denis Waitley

A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

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. — Denis Waitley

You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest. — Denis Waitley

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed. — Denis Waitley

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do ... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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! — Denis Waitley

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on. — Denis Waitley

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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. — Denis Waitley

When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body — Denis Waitley

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

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. — Denis Waitley

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall. — Denis Waitley

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

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

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. — Denis Waitley

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem. — Denis Waitley

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

You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

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

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us. — Denis Waitley

View life as a continuous learning experience. — Denis Waitley

The first step toward success will be the biggest one. — Denis Waitley

One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

Discipline is doing within, while you do without. — Denis Waitley

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

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. — Denis Waitley

Winning is all in the attitude! — Denis Waitley

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

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

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated. — Denis Waitley

Opportunities are problems in search of solutions. — Denis Waitley

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

Winners are people with definite purpose in life. — Denis Waitley

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

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight. — Denis Waitley

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run. — Denis Waitley

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

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife ... — Denis Waitley

We don't get what we want, we get what we expect. — Denis Waitley

Your habits will determine your quality of life. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. — Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. — Denis Waitley

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

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. — Denis Waitley

A good life is a collection of happy moments. — Denis Waitley

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away. — Denis Waitley

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

One person's ceiling is another person's floor. — Denis Waitley

Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success. — Denis Waitley

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

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness. — Denis Waitley

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you. — Denis Waitley

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture. — 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. — Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective. — Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort. — Denis Waitley

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds. — Denis Waitley

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Get out of that comfortable rut. — Denis Waitley

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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. — Denis Waitley

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can." — Denis Waitley

Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding. — Denis Waitley

View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it. — Denis Waitley