Quotes by Brian Tracy

• Success is not about reaching the top, but about learning to enjoy the climb.
• 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.
• Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
• 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.
• Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
• You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
• 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.
• The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
• 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.
• 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.
• We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
• 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 person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
• Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
• 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.
• 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.
• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
• 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.
• Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
• I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
• If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
• 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.
• Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
• If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
• Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
• It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
• 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.
• People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
• Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
• Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
• 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.
• Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
• Never underestimate the power of consistency in the pursuit of greatness.
• Successful people build each other up. They motivate, inspire, and push each other to keep going.
• When obstacles arise, change your direction, not your vision.
• A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
• Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the the biggest step of your life.
• In every adversity, lies the seed of an equal or greater opportunity waiting to be discovered.
• Fear has two meanings - forget everything and run, or face everything and rise - the choice is yours
• There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
• Success is not defined by perfection, but by perseverance and learning from failures.
• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
• Successful people develop habits that lead to success, while others just wish for it.
• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
• Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.
• Success is a journey, not a destination; it's a continuous pursuit of growth and learning.
• Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
• Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do.
• Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination.
• Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
• Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on your capabilities to achieve greatness.
• Success demands discipline, determination, and dedication.
• The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one
• It doesn't matter where you came from. All that matters is where you're going.
• There are no limits to what you can achieve, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little 'extra'
• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the past or present may have thrown your way.
• Success in life doesn’t come from what you achieve alone; it comes from what you inspire others to accomplish together.
• Success is like a snowball; it picks up momentum the more you roll with it.
• Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life, but what you inspire others to do while you're still here.