About Denis Waitley: Denis E. Waitley is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author.
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.
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
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.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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 being nothing.
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.
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.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
