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Denis Waitley Quotes - Page 7

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

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

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

Family, Children, Parenting

"Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

Inspirational, Positive, Success

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."

Motivational, Thinking, Games

Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times

Energy, Easy, Projects

You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”

Success, People, Like Me

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

Inspirational, Your Best Friend, Should

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

Inspirational, Motivational, Problem

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

Literature, Worthy

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Motivational, Beauty, People

Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.

Attitude, Keys, Doors

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Able, Easier

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

Running, Real, Winning

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.

Inspirational, Cutting, Goal

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Life, Motivational, Dream

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

Champion, Deeds, Action

You can only do good if you feel good.

Feel Good, Feels, Ifs

Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

Focus, Achievement, Energy

Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

Inspirational, Relationship, Helping Others

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

Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.

Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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

Attitude, Winning, Looks

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

Procrastination, Opportunity, Numbers

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

Regret, Sweat, Tears

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

Inspirational, Responsibility, Maturity

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Greatness, Ideas, People

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