Quotes from Brian Tracy

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

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

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.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.

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.

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.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

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 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.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

the quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.

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

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than exist today.

As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

The law of Forced Efficiency says that There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Galileo once wrote, You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

f 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.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.