Quotes from Brian Tracy

A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.

If it's to be, it's up to me!

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else." —HENRY WARD BEECHER, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CLERGYMAN

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?

Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.

There's only one direction you can coast.

There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work. With self-discipline, they all work.

The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.

Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other. The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality. The only question you have to answer is, How badly do you want it?

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

To be truly happy and fulfilled, you must be working toward accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself, and that makes a difference in the life or work of others.

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.

The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all... ...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates... ...43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald's...

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.

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

When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.

Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.

Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE

It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.