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Quotes by Denis Waitley

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

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people cant buy more hours. Scientists cant invent new minutes. And you cant save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time youve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever 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.

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.

Winning is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people cant buy more hours. Scientists cant invent new minutes. And you cant save time to spend it on another day. Even so time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time youve wasted in the past you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

The winners edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winners edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

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

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