249 Quotes by Brian Tracy

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. (Quote Meaning)

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

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits. (Meaning)

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

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. (Meaning)

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. (Quote Meaning)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. (Meaning)

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

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. (Quote Meaning)

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.

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

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

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. (Quote Meaning)

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

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

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

Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. (Meaning)

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

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

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

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

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

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

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

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

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

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you and makes everything else possible. (Quote Meaning)

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

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

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.

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

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.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

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

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

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.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in 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 become what you think about most of the time. (Meaning)

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else. (Meaning)

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.

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

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

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

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. (Meaning)

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

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

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. (Quote Meaning)

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.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.

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.

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

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. (Quote Meaning)

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. (Meaning)

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

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

There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

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

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

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

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

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

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

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

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

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

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

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.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

If 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.

Change your thinking, and you will change your life. (Meaning)

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

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

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.

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

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

"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."

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. (Meaning)

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

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

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

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

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.

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.

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

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

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

Decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.

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

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

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

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.

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

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.

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

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.

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

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

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.

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

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

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

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

The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

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

Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.

You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.

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

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

Success comes in cans, not can'ts. (Meaning)

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

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

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

Throughout the developed world, we have moved from "man power" to "mind power." We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.

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.

So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

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

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best! (Meaning)

It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

Worry is negative goal setting.

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

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance (Meaning)

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

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.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

Nobody values your time but YOU.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.