Dennis Waitley, born on May 22, 1933, is a renowned American motivational speaker, author, and consultant. With a career spanning several decades, Waitley has inspired countless individuals to achieve their full potential and pursue success. He is widely recognized for his expertise in the field of personal development and his ability to motivate others to overcome challenges and embrace positive change. Waitley’s best-selling books, including “The Psychology of Winning,” have empowered readers to adopt a winning mindset, set meaningful goals, and cultivate resilience. Through his engaging speaking engagements and impactful teachings, Waitley has helped individuals and organizations unlock their true potential and achieve extraordinary results. Dennis Waitley’s legacy as a motivator and teacher continues to inspire individuals worldwide to strive for excellence and live their best lives.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Denis Waitley
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Denis Waitley
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Denis Waitley
Get enthusiastic and excited about your dreams. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley
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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All of the top achievers I know are lifelong learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.
Denis Waitley
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
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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.
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Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, “I want to do this and I CAN do this”, not “I would like to do this, but I don’t think I can”.
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The real risk is doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.
Denis Waitley
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
Denis Waitley
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Denis Waitley
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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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.
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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.
Denis Watley
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.
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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.
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
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