Top 792 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Tracy - Page 5

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

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.

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.

Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

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

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

Success is predictable.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

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

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Worry is negative goal setting.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

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

"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."

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

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.

If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

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.

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.