Denis Waitley Quotes: 12

• 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.

• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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

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

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