Denis Waitley Quotes

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

There are 2 primary choices in life:
To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept responsibility for changing them.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

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.

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are
not.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

Make enthusiasm your daily habit. Don't let negative people determine your self-worth. Seek friends and associates whose lifestyles and words inspire you. If you have to deal with negative people, make a conscious effort not to let them infect your thinking.

A good life is a collection of happy moments.

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.