Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
— Denis Waitley
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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.
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.
