Denis Waitley

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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.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Champion
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Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Understanding
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Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Focus
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Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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You can only do good if you feel good.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Feel Good
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Come through for others and they will come through for you.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
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Collection: Truth Is
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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.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Dream
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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.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Regret
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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Attitude
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Procrastination
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The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.
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Collection: Greatness
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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.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Lying
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When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Able
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Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Wall
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Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Weed
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Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Successful
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Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Blessing
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Real power comes by empowering others.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Real
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The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.
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Collection: Achievement
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Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Commitment
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Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Skills
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Funny
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Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: People
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We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Forgiving
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Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Pads
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Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Swimming
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Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Respect
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Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Perseverance
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By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: People
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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.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Moving
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Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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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
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Energy
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The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Mirrors
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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."
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Motivational
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You know you're a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I'm with you.”
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Success
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Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Winning
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Dream
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You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Motivational
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With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Struggle
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Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Goal
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By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Positive Thinking
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Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Inspirational
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The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Self
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Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Self Esteem
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Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.
- Denis Waitley
Collection: Week