Top 250 Denis Waitley Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Don’t let negative people determine your self-worth.”

— Denis Waitley

152. “Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.”

— Denis Waitley

153. “Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.”

— Denis Waitley

154. “Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.”

— Denis Waitley

155. “Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn’t sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter – but without it, leadership is a facade.”

— Denis Waitley

156. “Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.”

— Denis Waitley

157. “Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.”

— Denis Waitley

158. “You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.”

— Denis Waitley

159. “Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.”

— Denis Waitley

160. “When you speak, ask questions. Don’t lecture.”

— Denis Waitley

161. “Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.”

— Denis Waitley

162. “Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.”

— Denis Waitley

163. “Winners are people with definite purpose in life.”

— Denis Waitley

164. “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.””

— Denis Waitley

165. “Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager...”

— Denis Waitley

166. “Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.”

— Denis Waitley

167. “If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter if your alarm doesn’t go off in the morning.”

— Denis Waitley

168. “Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.”

— Denis Waitley

169. “Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.”

— Denis Waitley

170. “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

171. “The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”

— Denis Waitley

172. “Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.”

— Denis Waitley

173. “Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is “motive in action.””

— Denis Waitley

174. “Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”

— Denis Waitley

175. “Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential.”

— Denis Waitley

176. “We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.”

— Denis Waitley

177. “We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.”

— Denis Waitley

178. “Don’t assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch – you!”

— Denis Waitley

179. “Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.”

— Denis Waitley

180. “You know you’re a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I’m with you.””

— Denis Waitley

181. “Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.”

— Denis Waitley

182. “Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.”

— Denis Waitley

183. “Great individuals make great successes out of failure.”

— Denis Waitley

184. “Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”

— Denis Waitley

185. “Discipline is doing within, while you do without.”

— Denis Waitley

186. “Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”

— Denis Waitley

187. “There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.”

— Denis Waitley

188. “The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.”

— Denis Waitley

189. “No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.”

— Denis Waitley

190. “Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.”

— Denis Waitley

191. “Don’t tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.”

— Denis Waitley

192. “You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.”

— Denis Waitley

193. “Success is not a resting-place – it is a launching pad.”

— Denis Waitley

194. “Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.”

— Denis Waitley

195. “Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.”

— Denis Waitley

196. “The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.”

— Denis Waitley

197. “The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place.”

— Denis Waitley

198. “Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.”

— Denis Waitley

199. “A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.”

— Denis Waitley

200. “Failure should be our teacher...”

— Denis Waitley