Denis Waitley

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

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

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don__ define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

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.

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

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

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

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.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

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.

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

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

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.

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

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

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.