Quotes from Denis Waitley

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

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.

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

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

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.

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

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

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

You can only do good if you feel good.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

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

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.