Brian Tracy Quotes

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

To earn more, you must learn more.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

the better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

Rule: Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.

it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , "I am responsible

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!" Brian Tracy says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...if you let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won't even know it.

The Key to Success is Action

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.

the quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

The law of Forced Efficiency says that "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, "Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than exist today.

You become what you think about most of the time

Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.

f you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.