Denis Waitley is one of the most respected keynote lecturers and productivity consultants in the world. He has helped millions of individuals become winners. A former Naval Aviator, Mr. Waitley graduated from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Voted “Platform Speaker of the Year” by the Sales & Marketing Executives’ Association and inducted into the International Speakers’ Hall of Fame, Denis Waitley is a sought-after speaker and trainer. He has studied and counseled leaders in every field from “Fortune 500″ top executives to managers of multinational corporations, from NASA astronauts to Superbowl and Olympic champions, from heads of government to family and youth groups.
With over 10 million audio programs sold in 14 languages, Denis Waitley is the most-listened-to-voice on personal and career achievement. He is the author of 14 books including global best-seller: Seeds of Greatness. His audio album The Psychology of Winning is the all-time best selling program on self-mastery.
Mr. Waitley is the former Chairman of Psychology on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Sports Medicine Council, responsible for performance enhancement of all American Olympic athletes.
Denis Waitley Quotes
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
- Denis Waitley
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.
- Denis Waitley
The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Denis Waitley
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
- Denis Waitley
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Denis Waitley
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
- Denis Waitley
A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
- Denis Waitley
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
- Denis Waitley
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.
- Denis Waitley
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience..
- Denis Waitley








