Brian Tracy Quotes

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

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.

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

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.

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

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

You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.

Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

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

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

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.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

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.

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

Nobody values your time but YOU.

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

If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

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

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

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

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

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.

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.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

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.

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.

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.

The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person

The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

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

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?