Denis Waitley Quotes

• The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important & give in to the urgent.

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  Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

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  Topics in Failure, Success

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

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Person, Sharing, Caring

• 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.

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  Topics in Future, Life

  Tags in Comfortable

• A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

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• As long as we are persistence 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.

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

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  Tags in Self, Accept

• Chase your passion, not your pension.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Time, Career

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

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• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Consequences

• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Believe

Denis Waitley (71)

Birth:	1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Speaker, Writer, Author, Consultant

About

Denis E. Waitley, is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author. Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and claims to have counseled leaders in many fields: Apollo astronauts, Fortune 500 top executives, Olympic gold medalists, Super Bowl champions, returning POWs.

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