Denis Waitley > Quotes

“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

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
― Denis Waitley

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
― Denis Waitley

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”
― Denis Waitley

“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

“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are
not.”
― Denis Waitley

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
― Denis Waitley

“Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.”
― Denis Waitley

“We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.”
― Denis Waitley

“Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.”
― Denis Waitley

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence”
― Denis Waitley

“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
― Denis Waitley

“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”
― Denis Waitley

“Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.”
― Denis Waitley

“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
― Denis Waitley

“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.”
― Dennis Waitley

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

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
― Denis Waitley

“View life as a continuous learning experience.”
― Denis Waitley

“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

“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

“Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.”
― Denis Waitley

“You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.


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― Denis Waitley

“You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.”
― Denis Waitley, The Psychology of Winning: Ten Qualities of a Total Winner

“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.”
― Denis Waitley

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

“Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.”
― Dennis Waitley

“A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out”
― Denis Waitley

“Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.”
― Dennis Waitley

“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not”
― Dennis Waitley