Top 792 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Tracy - Page 9

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

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

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

No matter what you have done to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.

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.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

Your greatest resource is your time.

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.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

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

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.

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

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

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

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

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

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

Treat objections as requests for further information.

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

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

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

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 every part of your life.

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.

To earn more, you must learn more.