Denis Waitley Quotes

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.