Denis Waitley Quotes

• There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Failure

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Endurance

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think

• 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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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Winner

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Results

• The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Achievement

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

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  Topics in Experience, Life, Love

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Life, Truth

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Success

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Life, Success

  Tags in Poor

• Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Satisfaction

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

• Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Limitations

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Characteristic, Winners

• 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.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Experience, Life

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Collection

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winners

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Future, Work

  Tags in Enjoy

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Autonomy

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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