Denis Waitley Quotes

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.

Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it

Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.