The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. – 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
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. – 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
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. – 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
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. – Denis Waitley
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. – 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
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. – 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
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. – Denis Waitley
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. – Denis Waitley
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. – Denis Waitley
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. – Denis Waitley
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. – Denis Waitley
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. – Denis Waitley
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. – Denis Waitley
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. – Denis Waitley
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. – 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