Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
DENIS WAITLEYFailure 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.
More Denis Waitley Quotes
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Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
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Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
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Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.
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We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. … Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.
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The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation.
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.
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When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.
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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.
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The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
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