Denis Waitley Quotes

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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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.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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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.
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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.
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
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The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
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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.
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
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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.
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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.
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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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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.
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When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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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.
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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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.
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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
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You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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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.
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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
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Chase your passion, not your pension.
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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