Top 250 Denis Waitley Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.”

— Denis Waitley

102. “Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.”

— Denis Waitley

103. “Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.”

— Denis Waitley

104. “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

105. “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.”

— Denis Waitley

106. “The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

107. “The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.”

— Denis Waitley

108. “Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.”

— Denis Waitley

109. “Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.”

— Denis Waitley

110. “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.”

— Denis Waitley

111. “Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.”

— Denis Waitley

112. “When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.”

— Denis Waitley

113. “Winning is all in the attitude!”

— Denis Waitley

114. “No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.”

— Denis Waitley

115. “SMILE! In every language, in every culture – it is the light in your window that tells people there’s a caring, sharing individual inside and it’s the universal code for “I’m O. K. – You’re O. K., too!””

— Denis Waitley

116. “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.”

— Denis Waitley

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

— Denis Waitley

118. “As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.”

— Denis Waitley

119. “The season for enjoying the fullness of life – partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.”

— Denis Waitley

120. “The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.”

— Denis Waitley

121. “What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.”

— Denis Waitley

122. “People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.”

— Denis Waitley

123. “The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

124. “How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.”

— Denis Waitley

125. “Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.”

— Denis Waitley

126. “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

127. “Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.”

— Denis Waitley

128. “Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life’s daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.”

— Denis Waitley

129. “The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who’ve been great in their service to others.”

— Denis Waitley

130. “The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation.”

— Denis Waitley

131. “The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.”

— Denis Waitley

132. “Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.”

— Denis Waitley

133. “Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.”

— Denis Waitley

134. “Instead of just letting life happen, I’m going to make it happen for me.”

— Denis Waitley

135. “The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”

— Denis Waitley

136. “By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.”

— Denis Waitley

137. “Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.”

— Denis Waitley

138. “Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.”

— Denis Waitley

139. “You become that to which you are most exposed.”

— Denis Waitley

140. “Success in life isn’t only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.”

— Denis Waitley

141. “Time is the most precious element of human existence.”

— Denis Waitley

142. “Don’t tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.”

— Denis Waitley

143. “When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.”

— Denis Waitley

144. “The ability to adapt is everything!”

— Denis Waitley

145. “Real success comes in small portions day by day.”

— Denis Waitley

146. “If you have real, internal value, you don’t need a loud, expensive imitation.”

— Denis Waitley

147. “Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.”

— Denis Waitley

148. “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.”

— Denis Waitley

149. “Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.”

— Denis Waitley

150. “One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.”

— Denis Waitley