Inspirational Denis Waitley Quotes

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

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

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

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

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

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

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

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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.

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

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

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

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