Denis Waitley Quotes

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

My success is not who I am.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

I always told myself I will never let football define who I am; I would only let in enhance who I am.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

You are the imagination of yourself.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Learn what you are and be such.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

Human improvement is from within outward.

Ego is good.