Denis Waitley
American motivational speaker and author, born 1933
22 quotes.
Quotes by Denis Waitley
- A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
- Chase your passion, not your pension.
- Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
- Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
- Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
- It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
- Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
- Most of the real winners in life are so busy contributing, they don’t even think of seeking publicity for their acts.
- Most people spend more time planning a party, studying the newspaper, or making a Christmas list than they do in planning their own lives.
- One of the best escapes from the prison of procrastination is to take even the smallest step toward your goal.
- Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
- Success is the way you spend your minutes doing your best for others.
- The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is in the attitude, not aptitude.
- There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- There is no question that our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves.
- There never was a winner who didn’t expect to win in advance.
- Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.
- What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
- Winners know that their actions will be controlled by their current obsessions.
- Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has a goal clearly in sight.