Top 100 Denis Waitley Quotes
#2. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
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#3. Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.
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#4. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
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#5. 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.
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#6. A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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#9. The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've
already achieved them.
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#10. You must feel love within, before you can share it.
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#11. If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
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#12. Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
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#13. If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.
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#14. A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out
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#15. When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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#16. You know you're a success when people tell you, "I like me best when I'm with you."
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#17. Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
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#18. Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.
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#19. Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others
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#20. The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
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#21. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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#22. Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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#23. Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
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#24. Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.
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#25. You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
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#26. On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.
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#27. Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.
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#28. When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
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#29. As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
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#30. Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.
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#31. You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
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#32. The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day.
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#34. You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.
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#35. Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.
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#36. Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.
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#37. It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.
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#38. The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.
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#39. Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
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#40. You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
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#41. Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.
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#42. Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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#43. 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.
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#44. You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
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#45. Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
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#46. Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
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#47. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
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#48. The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.
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#50. Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.
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#51. Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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#52. Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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#53. The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.
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#55. Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement
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#56. Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.
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#57. Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.
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#58. THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.
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#63. Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.
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#66. 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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#67. Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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#68. The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.
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#69. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.
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#70. It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.
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#71. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
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#72. Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
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#73. The winner's edge is all in the attitude,
not aptitude.
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#74. If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.
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#75. Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
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#76. Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.
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#77. Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
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#78. You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
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#79. Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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#80. Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
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#81. The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.
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#82. We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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#83. There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.
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#88. Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.
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#89. Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
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#90. 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
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#91. Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
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#92. The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
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#93. We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
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#94. The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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#95. Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."
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#96. The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!
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#97. Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.
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#98. How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
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