Denis Waitley Quotes

• The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important & give in to the urgent.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in World

• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

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  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Temporary, Teacher

• A good life is a collection of happy moments.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy, Moments

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

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  Topics in Children, Gift

  Tags in Greatest, Independence

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Assumption

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Value

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

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Learn

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expertise

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Profits

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

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  Tags in Worthy

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realization

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Individual

• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

• When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

• We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in dream

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Successful

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Time, Energy

Denis Waitley (71)

Birth:	1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Speaker, Writer, Author, Consultant

About

Denis E. Waitley, is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author. Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and claims to have counseled leaders in many fields: Apollo astronauts, Fortune 500 top executives, Olympic gold medalists, Super Bowl champions, returning POWs.

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