"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." -- Denis Waitley
Denis E. Waitley (born 1933), is an Americanmotivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author.
Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis., a former Navy pilot, and has studied and counseled leaders in many fields: Apollo astronauts, Fortune 500 top executives, Olympic gold medalists, Super Bowl champions, returning POWs..
He has authored 16 books and has released hundreds of audio lectures.
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.""A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.""A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.""As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.""Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.""Chase your passion, not your pension.""Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.""Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.""Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.""Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.""Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.""Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.""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.""Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.""Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.""Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.""Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.""I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.""If 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.""It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.""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.""Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.""Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.""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.""Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.""Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.""Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.""Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.""Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.""No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.""One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.""Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.""Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.""Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.""Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.""Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.""Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.""That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.""The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.""The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.""The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.""The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.""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.""The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.""The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.""There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.""There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.""Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.""Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.""To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.""We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.""When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.""Winners are people with definite purpose in life.""Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.""Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.""You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.""You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.""You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.""You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.""You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.""You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.""You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.""You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.""You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.""You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."
In 2007, Denis Waitley withdrew his renomination to the board of directors of Usana and announced his retirement from the company, after it was discovered that he did not have the claimed Master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.. In addition to this USANA informed the Wall Street Journal that they were unable to verify Waitley's Ph.D. from the unaccredited La Jolla University.
The Psychology of Winning Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, (1995) ISBN 0425099997, 192 pages
Seeds of Greatness Simon & Schuster, (1983) ISBN 067149936X,
New Dynamics of Winning: Gain the Mind-Set of a Champion for Unlimited Success in Business and Life HarperCollins Publishers, (1995) ISBN 0688142273, 224 pages
The Dragon And The Eagle
Safari to the Soul Éditions GoTopShape, (2004) ISBN 2923209036,
The Seeds of Greatness Treasury
The Psychology of Winning for Women 271 pages, (1999) ISBN 189000913X,
Being the Best Simon & Schuster, Limited, (1988) ISBN 0671701673,
The Winners Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success Berkley Books, (1985) ISBN 0425082822, 183 pages
The Joy of Working Ballantine Books, (1986) ISBN 0345334876, 320 pages
The New Dynamics of Goal Setting: Flextactics for a Fast-changing World HarperCollins, (1996) ISBN 0688126685, 177 pages
Psychology of Success: Developing Your Self-esteem Irwin Career Education Division, (1996)ISBN 0256194777, 288 pages
Quantum Fitness: Breakthrough to Excellence Pocket Books (Mm), (1986) ISBN 0671618253,
Empires of the Mind: Lessons to Lead and Succeed in a Knowledge-based World W. Morrow, (1995) ISBN 0688140335, 266 pages
