Quotes from Denis Waitley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

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

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

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

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

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

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

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

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

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

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

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

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.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

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

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

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