Denis Waitley

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

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.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

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.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

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.

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

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

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

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

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.

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

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

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

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

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

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.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

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

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

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.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

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.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.