Top 792 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Tracy

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

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.

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

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

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

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

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

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

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

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.

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.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

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

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

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.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind