Best 278 quotes of Denis Waitley on MyQuotes

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

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.

A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

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.

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

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.

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

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.

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.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

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

Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.

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.

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

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

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

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

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

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

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

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

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

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

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

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

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

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!

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

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

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager.

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

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

Don't 'take care', take a risk!

Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.

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.

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

Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action.

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

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.

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.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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.

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