Brian tracy quotes

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

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

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

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

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

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

Change your thinking, and you will change your life.

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

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

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

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

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.

Dream BIG dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.

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

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

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.

We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

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

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

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

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

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

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.

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

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

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

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.

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

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

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

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

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

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.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

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.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

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.

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

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

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.

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

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

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

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

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

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

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.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

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

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.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

You become what you think about most of the time.

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations. Your expectations determine your attitude. Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people. And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

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

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

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

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

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

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

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

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

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.

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

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

Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.