Quotes from Brian Tracy

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.

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.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Messages "For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself." – Viktor Frankl

At the end of the day, we are all guests in this world; we will move on eventually. However, while you are here, you can leave your mark by setting goals and putting your heart, soul and body into them, and letting the outcome be the by-product of your focus. Let your concentration be on your craft and watch the magic unfold.

Our greatest enemies are always our own doubts and fears. But there are no limits to what you can do, be, or have except for the limits you place on yourself.

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. JAMES T. McCAY

The key to happiness then is to systematically eliminate, or at least minimize, the parts of your life that cause you negativity or stress of any kind.

Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran says: "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain; and could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

You can never rise any higher than your expectations of yourself. Since they are completely under your control, be sure that your expectations are consistent with what you want to see happen. Always expect the best of yourself.

The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships—especially with your children and spouse—simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

Discipline yourself to act every minute of the day as if everyone were watching you.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Imagination is more important than facts. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

As you begin to see yourself and think about yourself as more competent and confident, your behavior becomes more focused and effective

Your behavior will guide the behavior of the other members of your team or the people in your organization.

Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the superior person from the average person.

The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

try a democratic environment. Ask your child's opinions, make them feel as though they matter and their feelings are valued. The same time and energy spent on an argument later can be spent listening to their opinions in the first place. When you take your child's feelings into consideration, when you ask their opinions, it makes them feel important even if they don't always get their way.

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Make a decision today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the "if only's" from your life.

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it.

The best work of all is when you are achieving your own goals by helping others to achieve theirs.