Top 100 Waitley Quotes
#1. It is culture that is the bully.
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#2. 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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#5. Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.
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#8. Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.
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#9. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
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#10. 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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#11. We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.
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#12. There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.
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#13. 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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#14. Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.
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#15. By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.
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#16. 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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#17. We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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#18. The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
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#19. The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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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#25. Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
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#26. The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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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#30. You must feel love within, before you can share it.
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#31. Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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#32. If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
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#33. 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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#34. Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.
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#36. If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.
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#37. A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out
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#39. The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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#40. 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.
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#41. When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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#42. You know you're a success when people tell you, "I like me best when I'm with you."
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#43. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
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#44. One person's ceiling is another person's floor.
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#45. Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.
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#46. Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
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#47. Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.
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#48. Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
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#49. Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.
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#50. Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.
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#51. Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.
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#52. Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.
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#53. Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
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#54. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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#55. The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.
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#56. Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others
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#57. The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
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#58. The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.
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#59. Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
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#60. The first step toward success will be the biggest one.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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#64. 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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#65. Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
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#66. Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.
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#67. You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
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#68. 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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#69. Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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#70. Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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#71. 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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#72. When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
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#74. As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
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#75. A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.
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#76. A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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#77. Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.
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#78. If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.
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#79. Discipline is doing within, while you do without.
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#81. 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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#82. There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
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#83. You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
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#84. Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.
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#86. The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
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#88. Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.
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#89. Your best friend should bring out the best in you
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#90. A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.
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#91. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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#92. 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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#93. A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
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#96. You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.
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#97. 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.
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#98. People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.
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#99. 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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#100. The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
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