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Denis Waitley

motivational speaker, writer, businessperson

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1933  – 2025

Denis E. Waitley was an American motivational speaker, writer and consultant. He has been recognized as the best-selling author of the audio series, The Psychology of Winning and books such as Seeds of Greatness and The Winner's Edge. Waitley has been inducted into the International Speakers' Hall of Fame. Denis died on June 7th 2025.

All Quotes by Denis Waitley

“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
“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
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
— Denis Waitley
“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
— Denis Waitley
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
— Denis Waitley
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
— Denis Waitley
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
— Denis Waitley
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
— Denis Waitley
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”
— Denis Waitley
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
— Denis Waitley
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
— Denis Waitley
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
— 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
“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
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
— Denis Waitley
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
— 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
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”
— Denis Waitley
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
— Denis Waitley
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
— Denis Waitley
“Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
— Denis Waitley
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
— Denis Waitley
“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
— Denis Waitley
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
— Denis Waitley
“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
— Denis Waitley
“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
— Denis Waitley
“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
— 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
“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
— Denis Waitley
“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
“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”
— Denis Waitley
“Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.”
— Denis Waitley
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
— Denis Waitley
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
— Denis Waitley