One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
DENIS WAITLEYContentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
More Denis Waitley Quotes
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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 most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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The world needs role models, instead of critics.
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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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You can only do good if you feel good.
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The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.
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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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What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.
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Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
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The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.
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The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
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Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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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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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.
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The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
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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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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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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.
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Real success comes in small portions day by day.
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Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.
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Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
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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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