Quotes by 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

Love

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

— Denis Waitley

Happiness

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

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Hope

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

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

— Denis Waitley

Life

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

— Denis Waitley

Success

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

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.

— Denis Waitley

Education

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.

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

— Denis Waitley

Success

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

— Denis Waitley

Wisdom

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

Life

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

Success

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

— Denis Waitley

Happiness

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

— Denis Waitley

Success

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

— Denis Waitley

Hope

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

— Denis Waitley

Success