Denis Waitley (1933-)

Denis Waitley quotes

• Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”

  Denis Waitley

• It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.”

  Denis Waitley

• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”

  Denis Waitley

• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

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• The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”

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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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• 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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• View life as a continuous learning experience.

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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 your 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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• You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

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• “A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out”

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

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• Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

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• The grеаtеѕt gifts уоu саn givе уоur сhildrеn аrе thе rооtѕ оf rеѕроnѕibilitу and thе wingѕ оf independence.

  Denis Waitley