Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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  Tags in Time, Career

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

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• 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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  Tags in Relationship

• Chase your passion, not your pension.

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

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  Tags in Self, Accept

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

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Person, Sharing, Caring

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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