Denis Waitley quotes

Denis Waitley, an influential American author, speaker, and consultant, has transformed the lives of millions worldwide. With over four decades of experience, Waitley is a leading authority on personal development and high-performance achievement. His insightful books, including "The Psychology of Winning," have topped bestseller lists globally. As a motivational speaker, his impactful presentations have inspired countless individuals to unlock their full potential. Through his consulting work, Waitley has partnered with renowned organizations to enhance leadership skills and cultivate a winning mindset. Emphasizing the power of positivity and self-belief, Denis Waitley continues to empower individuals to overcome challenges and achieve extraordinary success. Discover his transformative teachings and embark on a journey towards personal growth and fulfillment today!

You have been given the greatest power in the world, the power to choose.

- Denis Waitley

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

- Denis Waitley

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.

- Denis Waitley

Winners are people with a definite purpose in life.

- Denis Waitley

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.

- Denis Waitley

View life as a continuous learning experience.

- Denis Waitley

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

- Denis Waitley

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 can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

- Denis Waitley

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

It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.

- Denis Waitley

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

- Denis Waitley

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

- Denis Waitley

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

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

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

- Denis Waitley

As long as we are persistent 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

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

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

- Denis Waitley