You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley More Quotes by Denis Waitley More Quotes From Denis Waitley Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Denis Waitley procrastination time past The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought. Denis Waitley choices goal thinking Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example! Denis Waitley respect inspiring love No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person. Denis Waitley being-there motivational inspirational By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad Denis Waitley success positive inspirational Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now. Denis Waitley cities children years The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self. Denis Waitley effort self class Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question. Denis Waitley asking-questions phones waiting Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people. Denis Waitley contentment challenges people 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. Denis Waitley creativity dream life The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. Denis Waitley essence love life You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life. Denis Waitley demand cutting skills Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. Denis Waitley winning desire spring Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. Denis Waitley parenting family children You become that to which you are most exposed. Denis Waitley exposed relationship Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts. Denis Waitley attitude life funny Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley determination giving wrestling 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. Denis Waitley laughter happiness life The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Denis Waitley achievement appreciate inspirational Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run. Denis Waitley real winning running
