Denis Waitley

Out of need springs desire and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

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

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.

Don't be a time manager be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

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 be worthy of the best but not more worthy than the rest.