Denis Waitley Quotes

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Denis Waitley

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• Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Cost

• Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Me
  • India

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• Todd and I have a very complementary working style .

  

  Sam Wood
  • Style
  • Working
  • Very

• One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Children
  • Change

• Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Society
  • Best
  • Better

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Real
  • Cool

• I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Never
  • Working
  • Fighter

• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Lips

• I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Long
  • Positive

• When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Poetry

• If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Trust
  • Friendship

• 'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Control
  • Hurt
  • Enemy

• The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World

• Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Power

• Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.Never suppose an inventing mind as source Of this idea nor for that mind compose A voluminous master folded in his fire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fire

• The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Control
  • Value

• Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

  

  Arshile Gorky
  • Life
  • Art
  • Movement

• 'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Success
  • Hard
  • Failing

• Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Million
  • Grounded

• There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.'

  

  Jon Pardi
  • People
  • Singing
  • Connection

• So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

  

  Jonathan Evison

• Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

  

  Denis Waitley