Brian Tracy is a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. His popular books are Earn What You’re Really Worth, Eat That Frog!, and The Psychology of Achievement. Profoundly inspirational Brian Tracy quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Brian Tracy Quotes
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy
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 evry part of your life. Brian Tracy
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me? Brian Tracy
Practice Golden Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed. Brian Tracy
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. Brian Tracy
Successful people are simply those with successful habits. Brian Tracy
Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. Brian Tracy
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. Brian Tracy
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it. Brian Tracy
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. Brian Tracy
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear. Brian Tracy
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. Brian Tracy
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. Brian Tracy
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before. Brian Tracy
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. Brian Tracy
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
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. Brian Tracy
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. Brian Tracy
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self development. Brian Tracy
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Brian Tracy
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now? Brian Tracy
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. Brian Tracy
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. Brian Tracy
If you like a person you say let’s go into business together. Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger. Brian Tracy
The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself. Brian Tracy
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. Brian Tracy
Excellence Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. Brian Tracy
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy
Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable before you decide what’s possible. Brian Tracy
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Brian Tracy
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. Brian Tracy
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy
Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Brian Tracy
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. Brian Tracy
One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all. Brian Tracy
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. Brian Tracy
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. Brian Tracy
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self fulfilling prophecy. Brian Tracy
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster. Brian Tracy
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self development. Brian Tracy
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. Brian Tracy
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Brian Tracy
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. Brian Tracy
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. Brian Tracy
To earn more, you must learn more. Brian Tracy
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. Brian Tracy
Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside. Brian Tracy
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. Brian Tracy
Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else. Brian Tracy
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. Brian Tracy
An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. Brian Tracy
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career. Brian Tracy
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results. Brian Tracy
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. Brian Tracy
Your life only gets better when you get better. Brian Tracy
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy
If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you’re going to double your income every year. Brian Tracy
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. Brian Tracy
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. Brian Tracy
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. Brian Tracy
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. Brian Tracy
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. Brian Tracy
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Brian Tracy
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me? Brian Tracy
An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done. Brian Tracy
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. Brian Tracy
Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Brian Tracy
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. Brian Tracy
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. Brian Tracy
Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers. Brian Tracy
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. Brian Tracy
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. Brian Tracy
Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect. Brian Tracy
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. 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. Brian Tracy
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self image. Brian Tracy
The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past. Brian Tracy
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. Brian Tracy
Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. Brian Tracy