Best 278 quotes of Denis Waitley on MyQuotes

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

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.

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

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

Motivation is motive in action.

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

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.

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

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

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

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

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.

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.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

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

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.

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.

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.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

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

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

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

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

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

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.

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

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

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.

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.

Procrastination is the fear of success.

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.

Profit is the celebration of service.

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.

Real power comes by empowering others.

Real success comes in small portions day by day.

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.

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times