Top 250 Denis Waitley Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.”

— Denis Waitley

202. “Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.”

— Denis Waitley

203. “The first step toward success will be the biggest one.”

— Denis Waitley

204. “What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.”

— Denis Waitley

205. “You are a masterpiece of creation.”

— Denis Waitley

206. “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.”

— Denis Waitley

207. “One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.”

— Denis Waitley

208. “Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.”

— Denis Waitley

209. “Decide to be happy, knowing it’s an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.”

— Denis Waitley

210. “It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.”

— Denis Waitley

211. “Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.”

— Denis Waitley

212. “First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.”

— Denis Waitley

213. “Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times.”

— Denis Waitley

214. “Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.”

— Denis Waitley

215. “Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.”

— Denis Waitley

216. “A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.”

— Denis Waitley

217. “When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.”

— Denis Waitley

218. “When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.”

— Denis Waitley

219. “You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.”

— Denis Waitley

220. “Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.”

— Denis Waitley

221. “We sing because we’re happy and happy because we sing.”

— Denis Waitley

222. “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

223. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.”

— Denis Waitley

224. “If we succeed without sacrifice, it’s because someone sacrificed for us.”

— Denis Waitley

225. “The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.”

— Denis Waitley

226. “A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.”

— Denis Waitley

227. “Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results – to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.”

— Denis Waitley

228. “Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.”

— Denis Waitley

229. “The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.”

— Denis Waitley

230. “The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.”

— Denis Waitley

231. “Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.”

— Denis Waitley

232. “People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.”

— Denis Waitley

233. “The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.”

— Denis Waitley

234. “Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.”

— Denis Waitley

235. “Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.”

— Denis Waitley

236. “Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.”

— Denis Waitley

237. “Profit is the celebration of service.”

— Denis Waitley

238. “Stop stewing and start doing!”

— Denis Waitley

239. “Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.”

— Denis Waitley

240. “Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.”

— Denis Waitley

241. “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.”

— Denis Waitley

242. “The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.”

— Denis Waitley

243. “Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.”

— Denis Waitley

244. “Your best friend should bring out the best in you.”

— Denis Waitley

245. “Come through for others and they will come through for you.”

— Denis Waitley

246. “The world needs role models, instead of critics.”

— Denis Waitley

247. “You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.”

— Denis Waitley

248. “Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others.”

— Denis Waitley

249. “Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.”

— Denis Waitley

250. “Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.”

— Denis Waitley