“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.”
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Brian Tracy
“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.”
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Brian Tracy
“It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”
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Brian Tracy
Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
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Brian Tracy
“The comfort zone is the greatest enemy of human potential.”
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Brian Tracy
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.”
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Brian Tracy
“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...”
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Brian Tracy
“If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"
Brian Tracy says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...if you let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won't even know it.”
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Brian Tracy
“No matter how you really feel at the moment or what is happening in your life, resolve to remain cheerful and upbeat. As Viktor Frankl wrote in his bestselling book Man’s Search for Meaning, “The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one’s attitude in any given set of cricumstances.”
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Brian Tracy
“You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true”
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Brian Tracy
“Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE”
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Brian Tracy
“Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”
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Brian Tracy
“Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Learn from the experts. Wow! What an idea. Success”
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Brian Tracy
“All change is from the inner to the outer. All change begins in the self-concept. You must become the person you want to be on the inside before you see the appearance of this person on the outside.”
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Brian Tracy