Quotes from Denis Waitley

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not!

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

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

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.

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

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think your not.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

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

Get out of that comfortable rut.

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

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

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.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Don't be a grudge collector. Too many people spend too much time every day thinking of past hurts, suffered-through office politics, messed-up relationships and, in general, the evils of the world. Don't waste your energy in this way. Apply your excellent mind to forgiving and forgetting.

There are no shortcuts to success. Being successful requires knowledge, preparation and persistence.

Your natural gifts are the key to fulfilling your potential for success. Find your natural gifts, develop them and then use them to be the best you can be.

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.

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