Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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Precious, Been, Depleted, Fitness

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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Love, Happiness, Consumed, Experience

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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Moving On, Forward, Next, Focus

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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Achievement, Constant, Most, Striving

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

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Resolve, Going, Roadblocks, Spite

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

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Change, Yourself, Changeable, Unacceptable

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

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Learn, Successes, Lean

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

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Decision, Parenting, Give, Autonomy

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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Small, Ultimate Goal, Cut, Mini

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

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Change, Changes, Relentless, Self-Image

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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Future, Break, Your, Unknown

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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Believe, Launching, Gets, Pad

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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Failure, Doing, Temporary, Delay

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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Passion, Chase, Your, Pension

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.

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Star, Fortune, May, Shining

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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Future, Destiny, Grow, Bloom

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.

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Winning, Success Is, Almost, Energy

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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Best, Prepare, Expect, Surprised

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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Motivational, Over, Which, Goals

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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Focus, Best, Lives, Goals

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

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Responsibility, Exist, Them, Primary

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

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Winners, Always, Commitments, Promises

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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Existence, Precious, Draw, Successful Person

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

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Work, Winners, Scaling, Relish

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

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Alone, How, Ever, Economic

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

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Failure, Self-Esteem, Establish

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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Doing, Big, Costs, Risky

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

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Health, Treat, Winners, Transportation

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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Thoughts, Think, Winners, Concentrate

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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Relationship, Means, Stressful

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.

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Winner, Edge, High, Aptitude

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

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Mistakes, Only, Failures, Lessons

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

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Innovation, Reason, Achieve, Realization

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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Goal, Will, Firmly, Energy

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

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Birthday, Children, Give, Greatest Gifts

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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Forest, Excited, Away, Excitement

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

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Learning, Expert, Gaining, Continuous

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

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Winners, Always, Themselves, Characteristic

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

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Wisdom, Achievements, Must, Credit

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

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Smile, Caring, Tells, Sharing

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

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Mistakes, Happen, Later, Painful

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

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Success, Poor, Holding, Hand

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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Mind, Dwells, Based, Limitations

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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Woman, Purpose, Some, Greater

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

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Learning, Winners, Toward, Present

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

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Feet, Street, Had, Met

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.

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Beauty, Which, Lives, Ashes

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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Through, Movie, Counts, Happening

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

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Expert, Continue, Like, Expertise

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

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Happiness, Find, Pursuit, Fulfillment

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

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Change, Rule, Must, Welcome

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, Canvas, Gaining, Masterpiece

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

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Love, Making, Essence, Daily Experience

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

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Ready, Must, Abandon, Assumptions

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

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Integrity, Before, Profits, Bottom Line

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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Important, Most, Ingredient, Satisfaction

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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Temporary, Next, Set, Consequences

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

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Purpose, People, Definite, Winners

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

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Will, Apply, Proportion, Results

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

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Look, Within, Must, Perspective

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

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Rest, More, Than, Worthy

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

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Nothing, Everything, Decide

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

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Know, Understand, Must, Seeing

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

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Desire, Will, Need, Springs

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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Life, Us, Accountable

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