Denis Waitley Quotes (20 quotations)
1. 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. - Denis Waitley
2. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. - Denis Waitley
3. Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. - Denis Waitley
4. Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do. - Denis Waitley
5. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. - Denis Waitley
6. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley
7. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. - Denis Waitley
8. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
9. I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. - Denis Waitley
10. 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. - Denis Waitley
11. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. - Denis Waitley
12. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. - Denis Waitley
13. 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. - Denis Waitley
14. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even 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. - Denis Waitley
15. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. - Denis Waitley
16. 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. - Denis Waitley
17. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley
18. We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. - Denis Waitley
19. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. - Denis Waitley
20. You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. - Denis Waitley
2. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. - Denis Waitley
3. Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. - Denis Waitley
4. Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do. - Denis Waitley
5. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. - Denis Waitley
6. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley
7. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. - Denis Waitley
8. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
9. I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. - Denis Waitley
10. 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. - Denis Waitley
11. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. - Denis Waitley
12. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. - Denis Waitley
13. 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. - Denis Waitley
14. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even 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. - Denis Waitley
15. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. - Denis Waitley
16. 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. - Denis Waitley
17. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley
18. We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. - Denis Waitley
19. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. - Denis Waitley
20. You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. - Denis Waitley
