Brian Tracy Motivational Quotations

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

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

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

Success is predictable.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

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

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

Treat objections as requests for further information.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

You are the architect of your owner destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.