Brian Tracy Quotes

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

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.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one

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.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

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.

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

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

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.

An undefined goal is unreachable.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

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

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.

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

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

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

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

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

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

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

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

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.

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 purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

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 foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.

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

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

You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"

Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

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

First you put in, then you get out.