Brian Tracy Quotations

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

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.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

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

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 evry part of your life.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

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

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.

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

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

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.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

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.

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.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

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.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

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.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

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.

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

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 company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst ofpositive energy.

We're all really excited to get out of I.V. and go play a Pac-10 team. It's especially exciting for the young guys.

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

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.

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.

Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.

Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

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

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

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.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?

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

Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.

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

Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

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.

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

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.

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

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

Success is predictable.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

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.

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

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

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.