It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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.
Denis Waitley

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Denis Waitley

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Denis Waitley

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley

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

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Denis Waitley

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

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
Denis Waitley

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Denis Waitley

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley

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

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley