428 Quotes by Denis Waitley

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

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.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

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.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.