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.
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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 WaitleyA 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.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
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.
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.
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.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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…
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.