Denis Waitley

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.
– 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.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– Denis Waitley

Look at your IQ as your imagination quotient.
– Denis Waitley

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
– Denis Waitley

Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.
– Denis Waitley

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before
you.
– Denis Waitley

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

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the
success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy,
carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll”
philosophy.
– Denis Waitley

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
– Denis Waitley

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult
problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
– Denis Waitley

It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.
– Denis Waitley

Winners are people with a definite purpose in life.
– Denis Waitley

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
– Denis Waitley

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

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or
position in life.
– Denis Waitley

You have been given the greatest power in the world, the power to choose.
– Denis Waitley

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– Denis Waitley

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be
worthy of your own approval.
– Denis Waitley

A life lived with integrity, even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune, is a shining star
in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
– Denis Waitley

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining
perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.
– Denis Waitley

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
– Denis Waitley

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus
innovation equals realization.
– Denis Waitley

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
– Denis Waitley

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or even
seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are
going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
– Denis Waitley

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– 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

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.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– Denis Waitley

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward
the future.
– Denis Waitley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
– Denis Waitley

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is
called experience.
– Denis Waitley

As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
– Denis Waitley

There are two primary choices in life: To accept conditions as they exist, or accept the
responsibility for changing them.
– Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– Denis Waitley

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the
unacceptable.
– Denis Waitley

View life as a continuous learning experience.
– Denis Waitley

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on
moving forward toward finding the answer.
– Denis Waitley

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
– Denis Waitley

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 the ultimate goal becomes a mini-goal in
itself.
– Denis Waitley

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy
to continue the climb.
– Denis Waitley

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
– Denis Waitley

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of
hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new
minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair
and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire
tomorrow.
– Denis Waitley

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
– Denis Waitley

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
– Denis Waitley

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
– Denis Waitley

Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they
have been depleted.
– Denis Waitley

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly
in sight.
– Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
– Denis Waitley

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

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t
spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
– Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
– Denis Waitley

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.
– Denis Waitley

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
– Denis Waitley

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of
independence.
– Denis Waitley

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
– Denis Waitley

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus
innovation equals realization.
– Denis Waitley

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other
hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or
what they can’t do.
– Denis Waitley