Brian Tracy Quotes

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

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

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

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.

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

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.

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

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

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

Success is predictable.

You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it all.

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

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

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.

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

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

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

The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

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.

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

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

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

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

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

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

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

The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.

Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

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

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

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

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.

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.

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

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

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

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

Change your thinking, and you will change your life.

As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

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.