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

- Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

- Denis Waitley

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

- Denis Waitley

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

- Denis Waitley

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

- Denis Waitley

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

- Denis Waitley

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

- Denis Waitley

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

- Denis Waitley

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley

Chase your passion, not your pension.

- Denis Waitley

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

- Denis Waitley

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.

- Denis Waitley