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Brian Tracy Quotes: 43

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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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  • 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.

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

  • Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

  • 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.

  • 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.