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.
— 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.
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.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
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.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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.
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.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
Chase your passion, not your pension.
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
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.
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.
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.
We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
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.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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.
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
