Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.
DENIS WAITLEYIf you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
More Denis Waitley Quotes
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
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No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
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The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Doubters don’t win, winners don’t doubt.
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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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When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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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.
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.
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God’s Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.
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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.
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You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
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