Brian Tracy Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

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

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

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

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

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

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

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

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.

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

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

Whatever you are, always be a good one.

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

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

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

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

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

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

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

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

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

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.

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.

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

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

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

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

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.

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

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

Worry is negative goal setting.

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

The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

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

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make the changes in your future, make new choices today.

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

If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.

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

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

To earn more you must learn more.

The key to success is action.

Be the best version of you.

Self-confidence is the foundation of all great success and achievement.

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.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

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

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

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.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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

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

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

You become what you think about most of the time.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

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

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

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

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals and then work toward them every day will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. if you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

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

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

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.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

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

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

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

Communication is a skill that you can learn. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, what’s in it for me?

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

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.

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

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

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

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

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

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

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

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

An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

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

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

All successful people 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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