Quotes from Denis Waitley

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet ? Denis Waitley

There are 2 primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept responsibility for changing them.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.

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

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

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

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

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

View life as a continuous learning experience.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

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... not moving toward excellence.

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

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

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

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.

Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!