Best quotes from Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. He is the author of over eighty books that have been translated into dozens of languages. His popular books are Earn What You’re Really Worth, Eat That Frog!, No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline, and The Psychology of Achievement. Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.

Some of the best quotes from Brian Tracy are listed below.

1. “20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results.” – Brian Tracy
2. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy
3. “All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” – Brian Tracy
4. “All successful people 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
5. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” – Brian Tracy
6. “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
7. “Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.” – Brian Tracy
8. “At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.” – Brian Tracy
9. “Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self-esteem.” – Brian Tracy
10. “Be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” – Brian Tracy
11. “Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.” – Brian Tracy
12. “Be the best version of you.” – Brian Tracy
13. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy
14. “Communication is a skill that you can learn. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” – Brian Tracy
15. “Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.” – Brian Tracy
16. “Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” – Brian Tracy
17. “Define your life in your own terms.” – Brian Tracy
18. “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
19. “Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.” – Brian Tracy
20. “Don’t ever settle for less than your best; Your potential is unlimited.” – Brian Tracy
21. “Don’t go through, grow through life.” – Brian Tracy
22. “Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” – Brian Tracy
23. “Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.” – Brian Tracy
24. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!” – Brian Tracy
25. “Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.” – Brian Tracy
26. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – Brian Tracy
27. “Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; It is a continuous journey that never ends.” – Brian Tracy
28. “Failure is a prerequisite for great success. if you want to success faster, double your rate of failure.” – Brian Tracy
29. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” – Brian Tracy
30. “Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.” – Brian Tracy
31. “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
32. “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” – Brian Tracy
33. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Your limits are all within yourself.” – Brian Tracy
34. “If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.” – Brian Tracy
35. “If you look for the good you will always find it.” – Brian Tracy
36. “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
37. “If you want more luck, take more chances.” – Brian Tracy
38. “If you were starting over today, what changes would you make in your life?” – Brian Tracy
39. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-improvement.” – Brian Tracy
40. “Imagine no limitations; decide what’s right and desirable before you decide what’s possible.” – Brian Tracy
41. “Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; What would it look like.” – Brian Tracy
42. “Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.” – Brian Tracy
43. “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” – Brian Tracy
44. “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
45. “Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.” – Brian Tracy
46. “Leaders think and talk about solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
47. “Life is like a combination lock; your goal is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want.” – Brian Tracy
48. “Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.” – Brian Tracy
49. “Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” – Brian Tracy
50. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitation on what you can be, have or do.” – Brian Tracy
51. “Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.” – Brian Tracy
52. “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
53. “Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.” – Brian Tracy
54. “Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” – Brian Tracy
55. “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
56. “Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.” – Brian Tracy
57. “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
58. “People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” – Brian Tracy
59. “Self-confidence is the foundation of all great success and achievement.” – Brian Tracy
60. “Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.” – Brian Tracy
61. “Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.” – Brian Tracy
62. “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” – Brian Tracy
63. “Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
64. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’” – Brian Tracy
65. “Successful people are simply those with success habits.” – Brian Tracy
66. “Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.” – Brian Tracy
67. “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
68. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.” – Brian Tracy
69. “The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.” – Brian Tracy
70. “The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.” – Brian Tracy
71. “The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy
72. “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
73. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” – Brian Tracy
74. “The key to success is action.” – Brian Tracy
75. “The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.” – Brian Tracy
76. “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.” – Brian Tracy
77. “The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person.” – Brian Tracy
78. “The law of concentration states that whatever you dwell upon grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.” – Brian Tracy
79. “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
80. “The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.” – Brian Tracy
81. “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
82. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Brian Tracy
83. “The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.” – Brian Tracy
84. “The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.” – Brian Tracy
85. “There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.” – Brian Tracy
86. “Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.” – Brian Tracy
87. “Think continually about what you want.” – Brian Tracy
88. “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
89. “To earn more you must learn more.” – Brian Tracy
90. “Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.” – Brian Tracy
91. “We will always tend to fulfill our own expectations of ourselves.” – Brian Tracy
92. “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Brian Tracy
93. “Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” – Brian Tracy
94. “Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.” – Brian Tracy
95. “When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself.” – Brian Tracy
96. “When you have too much to do, make a list of every single task before you begin to get your life back under control.” – Brian Tracy
97. “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” – Brian Tracy
98. “You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make the changes in your future, make new choices today.” – Brian Tracy
99. “You become what you think about most of the time.” – Brian Tracy
100. “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
101. “You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.” – Brian Tracy
102. “You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.” – Brian Tracy
103. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
104. “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals and then work toward them every day will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.” – Brian Tracy
105. “Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.” – Brian Tracy
106. “Your happiness is what truly matters most. Do what you have to do in order to be happy.” – Brian Tracy
107. “Your life only gets better when you get better.” – Brian Tracy
108. “Your mind will make you rich or poor, depending on the use you put to it.” – Brian Tracy
109. “Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.” – Brian Tracy
110. “Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.” – Brian Tracy