83 Quotes & Sayings By Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is a personal development expert whose writing has appeared in more than two dozen languages. He is the author of many best-selling books, including No More Mr. Nice Guy, The Psychology of Achievement, and How to Get What You Want. His clients have included the leaders of numerous Fortune 500 companies, as well as leading politicians, business executives, sports figures, entertainers, broadcasters, actors and actresses, authors, physicians, nurses and human resource experts.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more...
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Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy
You have within you, right now, everything you need to...
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You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself...
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others....
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me? Brian Tracy
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can...
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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. Brian Tracy
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that...
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
Look for the good in every person and every situation....
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Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. Brian Tracy
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
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Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. Brian Tracy
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either...
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Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. Brian Tracy
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level...
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The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. Brian Tracy
The act of taking the first step is what separates...
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The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want...
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often. Brian Tracy
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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. Brian Tracy
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the...
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. Brian Tracy
Always choose the future over the past. What do we...
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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? Brian Tracy
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself. Brian Tracy
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They...
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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. Brian Tracy
The more you seek security, the less of it you...
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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. Brian Tracy
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal...
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Brian Tracy
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If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in...
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1, 000 percent Return on Energy! Brian Tracy
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and...
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. Brian Tracy
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your...
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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like...
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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 very part of your life. Brian Tracy
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a...
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. Brian Tracy
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in...
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. Brian Tracy
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Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
The potential of the average person is like a huge...
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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
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Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. Brian Tracy
Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these...
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Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind. Brian Tracy
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Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. Brian Tracy
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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning. Brian Tracy
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People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future. Brian Tracy
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Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. Brian Tracy
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To earn more, you must learn more. Brian Tracy
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Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success. Brian Tracy
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear. Brian Tracy
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent. Brian Tracy
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The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. Brian Tracy
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Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. Brian Tracy
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Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible. Brian Tracy
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The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. Brian Tracy
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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy
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The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school–including 42% of university graduates...43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level.. they are functionally illiterate.. fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald’s.. . Brian Tracy
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...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being. Brian Tracy
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If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. Brian Tracy
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You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities. Brian Tracy
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Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality. Brian Tracy
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The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us ofhappiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we arecapable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions, unhappiness and problems in human relationships. Brian Tracy
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You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in. Brian Tracy
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You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside. Brian Tracy
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Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality. Brian Tracy
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The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue. Brian Tracy
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If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable. Brian Tracy
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Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. Brian Tracy
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses Brian Tracy
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One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all. Brian Tracy
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger. Brian Tracy
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. Brian Tracy
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If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger. Brian Tracy
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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. Brian Tracy
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. Brian Tracy
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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. Brian Tracy
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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. Brian Tracy
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Brian Tracy
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. Brian Tracy