Denis Waitley Quotes

At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

It's never too late to be great.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.

Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if you believe that you are, then you're almost as good as being that.

People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I just want to be great.

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

When I graduated from college, I was told I could do great things and be great, but I didn't know what that meant and what it would feel like and the work that it would take.

From someone who has won five Ballons d'Or you can learn a lot.

Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?