Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

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

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.

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

Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.

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

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

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

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. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

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.

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.

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.

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

Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.

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