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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  Topics in Work

  Tags in World

• 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

  Tags in Temporary, Teacher

• A good life is a collection of happy moments.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy, Moments

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

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  Topics in Children, Gift

  Tags in Greatest, Independence

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

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  Tags in Believe

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

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  Tags in Assumption

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Value

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

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Learn

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expertise

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

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  Tags in Profits

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

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• You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

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  Tags in Responsibility

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realization

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

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time

• 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.

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  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Individual

• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in dream

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

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Successful

• 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.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Time, Energy

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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