Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
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Denis Waitley
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About Denis Waitley
Denis E. Waitley was an American motivational speaker, writer and consultant. He has been recognized as the best-selling author of the audio series, The Psychology of Winning and books such as Seeds of Greatness and The Winner's Edge. Waitley has been inducted into the International Speakers' Hall of Fame. Denis died on June 7, 2025.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Denis WaitleyWinners 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.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
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.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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…
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
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.
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.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next 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.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.