Denis Waitley

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

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.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

Procrastination is_x000D_ the fear of success.

There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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.

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.

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

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.