Denis Waitley

“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.”

“A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out”

“Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.”

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

“Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.”

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

“We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.”

“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet”

“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”

“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.”

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”

“Happiness is the experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.”

“You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing. ”

“Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.”

“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.”

“Chase your passion, not your pension.”

“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.”

“View life as a continuous learning experience.”

“It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you arenot.”

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”