There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
~ 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.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t 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.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - 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.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.
Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.
Winning is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.
Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.
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. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.
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.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
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.
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.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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.
