Quotes by 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.”

“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”

“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, a...”

“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

“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 ca...”

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

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they dont define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan ...”

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.”

“Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.”

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

“Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.”

“Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.”

“Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.”

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

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

“Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.”

“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

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

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