Brian Tracy Quotes

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...

To earn more, you must learn more.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

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

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

Whatever you believe, with feeling,becomes your reality.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

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

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.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

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

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

...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.

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.

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.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?

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

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.

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

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