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Denis Waitley Quotes - Page 3

All Quotes Achievement Appreciation Attitude Belief Business Challenges Change Children Choices Commitment Desire Destiny Determination Education Effort Encouragement Energy Excellence Expectations Failure Focus Funny Giving Gratitude Greatness Growth Happiness Happy Imagination Imitation Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Joy Laughter Learning Life Literature Love Motivation Motivational Opportunity Optimism Passion Past Perseverance Persistence Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Procrastination Purpose Quality Responsibility Risk Running Self Confidence Self Esteem Self Worth Sports Success Time Time Management Values Vision Waiting Wealth Winning Wisdom

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.

Opportunity, Opportunity For Success

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Relationship, Courage, Moving Forward

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

Motivational, Success, Disappointment

The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'

Leadership, Two, Important

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Inspirational, Perseverance, Ambition

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

Life, Education, Moving

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Choices, Chance, Loser

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

Inspirational, Appreciate, Achievement

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

Inspirational, Fear, Learning

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

Important, Opinion

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.

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

Dream, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

Yes I Can, Important, Three

Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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.

Life, Happiness, Laughter

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Inspirational, Life, Business

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

Inspiration, Persistence, Best Effort

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

Night, Desire, Want

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

Attitude, How You Feel, Projects

Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.

People, Example

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

Motivational, Mistake, Past

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

Past, Priorities, Matter

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

Children, Years, Cities

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

Inspirational, Motivational, Play

Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket

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

Perspective, Looks, Values

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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