Waitley Quotes & Sayings

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. — 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. — Denis Waitley

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing — 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

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life. — Denis Waitley

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself. — Denis Waitley

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 — 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

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. — Denis Waitley

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

People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. — 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

Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort. — 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

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

Motivation is motive in action. — Denis Waitley

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

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. — Denis Waitley

The real risk is doing nothing. — Denis Waitley

It is culture that is the bully.
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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

Stop stewing and start doing! — 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

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

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

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us. — 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

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

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

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

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

Losers take chances; winners make choices. — Denis Waitley

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

With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind. — Denis Waitley

On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

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

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day. — Denis Waitley

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct. — Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive. — Denis Waitley

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

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up ... — Denis Waitley

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've
already achieved them. — Denis Waitley

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk. — 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

Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Failure should be our teacher.. — Denis Waitley

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear — Denis Waitley

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

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person. — Denis Waitley

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

People who seek attention, need all the help they can get. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley

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

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch. — Denis Waitley

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

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

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY. — Denis Waitley

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight. — Denis Waitley

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

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible. — Denis Waitley

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

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

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others — Denis Waitley

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

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

Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty. — Denis Waitley

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you. — Denis Waitley

No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person. — Denis Waitley

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. — Dennis Waitley

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. — Denis Waitley

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

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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

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. — Denis Waitley

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. — Denis Waitley