Denis Waitley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Moving On #Moving Forward #Focus

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Change #Accepting #Unchangeable

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

#Successful #Inspire #Inspire Others

“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Past #Loser #Winner

“The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Trying #Impressive #Impress

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

#Alive #Lessons #Process

“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.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Positive #Believe #Pads

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

#Smile #Caring #Light

“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

#Wall #Motivation #Real

“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.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Successful #Pie #Numbers

“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Envy #Criticism #Bears

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

#Encouraging #Views #Experts

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

#Failure #Next #Forget

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

#Risk #Doing Nothing #Cost

“When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Opportunity

“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

#Asking Questions #Phones #Waiting

“You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Perspective #Looks #Values

“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.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Teacher #Failure #Saying Nothing

“The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Success #Faces #Limitation

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

#Change #Positive #Responsibility

“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Integrity #Commitment #Promise

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

#Love #Positive #Spiritual

“Great individuals make great successes out of failure.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Motivational #Failure #Greatness

“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Goal #Energy #Source

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

#Inspirational #Achievement #Approval

“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Disappointment #Worst #Plans

“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

#Regret #Sweat #Tears

“The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action”
-- Denis Waitley

#Two #Action #Busters

“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Happiness #Pursuit Of Happiness #Pursuit

“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.”
-- Denis Waitley

#Dream #Self Confidence #Creative