Brian Tracy Quotes

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
One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
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Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
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If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.
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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.
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Whatever you believe, with feeling,becomes your reality.
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Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.
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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.
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You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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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.
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Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
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The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
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To earn more, you must learn more.
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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.
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.
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Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
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Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
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Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
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Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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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.
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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.
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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
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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.
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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
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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.
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The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
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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.
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