Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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.

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

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

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

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

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

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

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