Brian Tracy quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

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.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

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

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

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

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

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average 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.

Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.

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.

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

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

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

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.

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

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

Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?

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

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

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

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough;

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

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

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

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

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

All great success is preceded by failure.

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.