Terry Waite's Quotes

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

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.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

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.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

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.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

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.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.