Denis Waitley
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.Collection: Parenting
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.Collection: Time
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.Collection: Relationship
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.Collection: Moving
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.Collection: Future
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.Collection: Fitness
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.Collection: Success
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.Collection: Health
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.Collection: Experience
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.Collection: Birthday
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Future
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.Collection: Imagination
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.Collection: Future
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.Collection: Experience
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.Collection: Wisdom
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.Collection: Attitude
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.Collection: Experience
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Failure
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.Collection: Best
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.Collection: Change
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Collection: Failure
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.Collection: Change
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.Collection: Smile
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.Collection: Success
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.Collection: Failure
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.Collection: Happiness
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.Collection: Inspirational
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.Collection: Love
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.Collection: Self Worth
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.Collection: Inspirational
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.Collection: Important
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.Collection: Cutting
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.Collection: Motivational
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Life
Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.Collection: People
There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.Collection: Beginners
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.Collection: Inspirational
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.Collection: Wisdom
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.Collection: Success
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'Collection: Inspirational
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.Collection: Positive
Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt.Collection: Sports
The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Past
One person's ceiling is another person's floor.Collection: Ceilings