Denis Waitley Quotes

200 Denis Waitley Quotes

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Before you state your case, gather the evidence, especially what motivates the other person.
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Winning is never whining.
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Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.
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Winning is being glad you’re you.
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Winning is a feeling, there is no ceiling.
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Winning is beginning, and by beginning, the game is half won.
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Winning is all in the attitude!
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To be self-reliant adults, we need to set some guidelines:
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Be different, if it means higher personal and professional standards.
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Be different, if it means being more gracious and considerate to others.
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Be different, if it means being cleaner, neater and better groomed than the group.
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Be different, if it means putting more time and effort into all you do.
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And be different, if it means taking the calculated risk.
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The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon others for your own security.
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The greatest security is to plan and act, and take the risk that will ultimately ensure your personal freedom and independence.
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The world needs role models, instead of critics.
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Others know when you have their best interests at heart.
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You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.
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Come through for others, and they will come through for you.
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People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.
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You know you’re a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I’m with you.”
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If we succeed without sacrifice, it’s because someone sacrificed for us.
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Real power comes by empowering others!
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Promises should not be given lightly unless you want them lightly received.
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If I help you win, then I win too!
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Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.
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Love should be a verb, not a noun or adverb.
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Love is an active emotion.
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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!
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Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.
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Only when you set your romantic and business partners free to be all they can be, will you know how attractive and lovable you are yourself; free of the insecurity and self-doubt that spawn envy and jealousy.
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To love is to be open and vulnerable, and to receive graciously that which is given.
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Value is in the doer, not the deed.
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Love yourself and give away, all the love you can today.
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Healthy love can’t be demanded nor taken for granted. It can only be a continuing give-and-take exchange and dialogue between two independent persons who share many values and responsibilities, yet still feel a childlike magic with each other.
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The first words you should speak to the one beside you when you awaken each morning are, “Good Morning, I love you.” The last words you should speak each night are, “Good Night, I love you.”
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The good old days are here and now!
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Happiness is the experience of living a life you feel is worthwhile.
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To be enthused is to be infused with life!
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Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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