Denis Waitley Quotes

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Giant oaks DO grow from little acorns. But first, you must have an acorn.
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Opportunity is a mind-set.
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Turn failure into fertilizer.
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Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk, every step will show.
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Successful people believe in their dreams, even if dreams are all they have to go on.
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Most human limitations are self-imposed.
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You are a masterpiece of creation.
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Change is just as predicable as taxes and death.
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Without a successful planning time, you have no focus for planting your efforts. Without a successful planting, you’ll have nothing to till and cultivate. Without proper management of your growing season, you’ll never reap the harvest you desire.
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Vehicles in motion use their generators to charge their own batteries. You can’t recharge your battery when you’re parked in the garage, unless you are a golf cart!
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Some people say that failure should be avoided at all costs. But if you think it through, that cost is too high. The only way to avoid failure at all costs is to do nothing. Although you avoid failure and defeat by doing nothing, you also avoid success and fulfillment.
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Beginning is half won.
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It’s easier to steer a car that’s in motion. Mid course corrections are nearly always possible.
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Concentrate on what is going right.
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The lack of persistence is the major reason people fail to attain their goals.
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Successful people are at the right place at the right time to a great extent because they have learned how to take certain action steps in proper sequence.
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Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly ‘Willing to do’ to achieve what you really want to achieve.
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The successful person is always seeking out the next area for growth, mapping out the next plan, working on the next idea, pursuing the next opportunity, looking for the next challenge, aiming at the next target.
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A family that travels together grows together and stays together.
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A man or woman without problems is one who is planted safely in the cemetery.
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All enduring success must be grown from the inside out. A feeling of inner success is much more difficult to acquire than material success. It demands self-honesty and the realization that success is not constant. It must be continually renewed through the seasons.
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Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street. Regard it as a short-term phenomenon.
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Contemporary psychologists agree that setbacks and failures mean little in themselves. The meaning of any failure - or any success, for that matter – is in how we take it and what we make of it.
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Successful people shape their dreams into specific goals and action plans. They have a sense of direction. They know where they are headed. Furthermore, they project dreams and goals into time.
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Successful people work their plans. They exert effort, adapt and persevere until their goals are reached. They develop the skills needed for planting and replanting and cultivating until they reap the harvest they desire. They put in the time required.
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To make life breathe easier for one person every day is to make a worthwhile start toward a destination that we can never fully reach but will be a process that gives meaning to our existence.
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Perseverance maintains you through the passing of time.
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Winter is the season for dreaming and planting. Spring is the season for planting. Summer is the season for growing and cultivating. Autumn is the season for harvesting and dispersing.
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The seasons ALWAYS come in sequence.
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One cannot ‘harvest’ life’s rewards without first planting seeds.
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The wise person celebrates success rather than tries to capture it forever.
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Happiness is the natural fruit of living a worthwhile life – regardless of one’s status, material possessions, or external appearance. Our success must include bringing benefit to others.
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Do you have a dream for your life?
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We need the sunlight of dreams to warm us and to compel us to grow upward and outward through what we plan, learn, do and achieve.
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If you don’t have a dream, you won’t develop goals. In fact you’ll have no need for them. If you don’t have goals, you’ll have no need for mapping out plans for reaching them. You’ll have no need for additional training or experience to accomplish them nor will you discipline yourself to acquire new habits necessary for attaining them.
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Goals should be flexible; Goals should be motivating.
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Henri Matisse created some of his best work when he was aged, bedridden and nearly blind.
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Face down the fear of taking a risk to improve your life. The fear of taking a risk is far more responsible for keeping people from failure than getting a dose of bad luck.
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Plan for rewards – ‘As you make plans for reaching goals, include plans for a reward once a goal is reached. Rewards allow you to celebrate your way to the goal.’
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Motivation without a goal is unfocused, is diffused, and evaporates easily. However, when motivation becomes focused on a well-defined goal and game plan, it becomes a powerful force for success and achievement.
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