"Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort." -- Brian Tracy

"Dare to go forward! Have you ever tried pushing a string?" -- Brian Tracy

"Identify and develop your unique talents and abilities, the things that make you special." -- Brian Tracy

"Identify and develop your unique talents and abilities, the things that make you special." -- Brian Tracy

"You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you." -- Brian Tracy

"We do not achieve our destinies or realize a future through physical effort. It's by what we do with our mind." -- Brian Tracy

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve." -- Brian Tracy

"Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving." --- 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

"Superior executives amaze and delight their customers. Do you?" -- Brian Tracy

"Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day." -- Brian Tracy
 

"An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality." -- Brian Tracy

"Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want." -- Brian Tracy

"Quickly say, 'That's good!' to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it." -- Brian Tracy

"Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectation." -- Brian Tracy

"An attitude of calm, confident expectation activates your creativity and unlocks your mental powers." -- Brian Tracy

"By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person." -- Brian Tracy 

The great secret of success is that there are no secrets of success; there are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries." -- Brian Tracy

"Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time." --- Brian Tracy

"One of the marks of superior people is that they are action-oriented. One of the marks of average people is that they are talk-oriented." --- Brian Tracy

"You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment." -- Brian Tracy

"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions." -- Brian Tracy

 "Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside." -- Brian Tracy

"Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectation." -- Brian Tracy

"Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want." -- Brian Tracy

"What is your mission? Why does your organization exist at all?" -- Brian Tracy

"Keep asking yourself, 'Knowing what I now know, is there any part of my business I wouldn't start up again today if I had to do it over?'" -- Brian Tracy

"Quality is what the customer says it is. How do your customers define quality?" -- Brian Tracy

"Reorganization--continually seek better, faster, more efficient ways to accomplish the same result." -- Brian Tracy
 

"Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?" --- Brian Tracy

"You cannot control what happens; you can only respond to what happens." -- Brian Tracy
 

"We do not achieve our destinies or realize a future through physical effort. It's by what we do with our mind." -- Brian Tracy

"To change your effects, you must change the causes." -- Brian Tracy

"A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them." -- Brian Tracy

"Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive." -- Brian Tracy

"Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change." -- Brian Tracy 

"A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them." -- Brian Tracy

"Change is inevitable. Because it is driven by expanding knowledge and technology, it is accelerating at a speed never seen before." -- Brian Tracy

"Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future." --- Brian Tracy

"The very best way to design and shape your character and personality is for you to act as if you were already the kind of person you would want to be." -- Brian Tracy

"Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them." -- Brian Tracy

"Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably." -- Brian Tracy

"Keep your conversation throughout the day consistent with what you really want to happen." -- Brian Tracy

"Be positive, pleasant, patient and easygoing - no matter how busy you really are." -- Brian Tracy

"Think before you speak, and then speak clearly and distinctly. Face the customer directly, lean forward, smile and relax." -- Brian Tracy

"Your ability to persuade and influence others determines the quality of your life, and your self-confidence." --- Brian Tracy

"Concentrate on one thing, the most important thing, and stay with it until it's complete." -- Brian Tracy

"Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character." -- Brian Tracy

"Always look to yourself as the primary creative force in your own life." -- Brian Tracy

"Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind." --Brian Tracy

"Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top 10 percent in your field. The payoff is incredible!" -- Brian Tracy

"You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough." --- Brian Tracy

"We do not achieve our destinies or realize a future through physical effort. It's by what we do with our mind." -- Brian Tracy

"You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you." -- Brian Tracy

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?'
- Brian Tracy

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave." --- Brian Tracy

"What steps could you take right now to begin turning your dreams into realities?" -- Brian Tracy

"Be open to constructive criticism from others; it's the only way you can grow and learn." -- Brian Tracy

"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success." --- Brian Tracy

"95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself." -- Brian Tracy

"Encourage participation and involvement from everyone in the accomplishment of complex tasks." -- Brian Tracy

"Deploy yourself for maximum Return on Energy. Focus on your strengths." -- Brian Tracy

"Good enough seldom is. Set excellence as your standard and refuse to compromise." -- Brian Tracy

"Your success depends upon the whole-hearted commitment to excellence on the part of everyone who reports to you." -- Brian Tracy

"The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of your work." --- Brian Tracy

"Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent fashion." -- Brian Tracy

"The antidote to worry is purposeful action." -- Brian Tracy

"You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment." -- Brian Tracy

"If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life." -- Brian Tracy

"The most successful people in our society think the furthest into the future. They are willing to make sacrifices in the short-term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long-term." -- Brian Tracy

"The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources." -- Brian Tracy

"Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness." -- Brian Tracy

"Goal-centered living leads to the activation of your full capacities." -- Brian Tracy

Most people earn at their self concept level of income. If you want to increase your earnings you must increase the amount you believe yourself capable of earning. You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make plans to achieve them. Fear of rejection, more than anything else, holds people back from achieving their full potential, and fear of rejection is often based on low self-esteem. The best way to improve your self-concept , and enhance your self-esteem, is through systematic desensitization, continuously doing what you are afraid of doing, and trying to do it better every time. --- Brian Tracy 

"Once you have a clear objective, think and talk only in terms of 'How?'" -- Brian Tracy

"Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you." -- Brian Tracy

"The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear." -- Brian Tracy

"Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be." -- Brian Tracy

"The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person." --
Brian Tracy

"The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible." -- Brian Tracy

"The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas." -- Brian Tracy

"Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character." -- Brian Tracy

"Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony." -- Brian Tracy

"The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality." -- Brian Tracy

"One good idea is all you need to start a fortune." -- Brian Tracy

"Your best ideas and most profound insights come after a period of rest and relaxation." -- Brian Tracy

"If you did not care at all about what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently, or change in your life?" -- Brian Tracy

"The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the more important things." -- Brian Tracy

"Integrity is more than a value -- it is the quality that guarantees all the other values." -- Brian Tracy

"Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits." -- Brian Tracy

"Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less." -- Brian Tracy

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

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

"Love is by far the most important thing of all." -- Brian Tracy

"Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it." --- Brian Tracy

"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like." -- Brian Tracy

"Make your financial independence a primary goal in life and begin working toward it today." -- Brian Tracy

Network continually -- 85 percent of all jobs are filled through contacts and personal references." -- Brian Tracy

"Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday." -- 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

"Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need." -- Brian Tracy

"The antidotes to fear and ignorance are desire and knowledge. Propel yourself forward by learning what you need to learn to do what you want to do." -- Brian Tracy

"After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?'" -- Brian Tracy

"Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything." -- Brian Tracy

"Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem." -- Brian Tracy

"Persistence in the face of adversity builds your self-confidence and your ability to persist even more." -- Brian Tracy
"Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is vital to all great achievement and it's always a result of a decision you make. It's not the external environment, it's the internal environment." -- Brian Tracy

"Persistence is self-discipline in action." -- Brian Tracy
 

"Plan every day in advance, preferably the night before. Plan every week in advance, as well." -- Brian Tracy

"Develop a compulsion to closure. Once you begin, refuse to stop before completion." -- Brian Tracy

"Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is vital to all great achievement and it's always a result of a decision you make. It's not the external environment, it's the internal environment." -- Brian Tracy

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!" -- 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

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." --- Brian Tracy 

"Practice the 20/80 Rule. The first 20 percent of the time you spend planning a project will be worth 80 percent of the time you spend on the entire project." -- Brian Tracy

"Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Perfect performance comes from painstaking preparation, often for weeks, months and years in advance." -- Brian Tracy

"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

"The most successful people in every area invariably spend far more time in preparation than the least successful." -- Brian Tracy

"What are the most important things you do, measured by their long-term consequences?" -- Brian Tracy

"Use mindstorming regularly. Define your goal in a form of a question and write out 20 answers to it." -- Brian Tracy
"Your ability to solve problems effectively determines how high you rise in your career." -- Brian Tracy
"The chief distinguishing characteristic of leaders is Intensity of Purpose." -- Brian Tracy

"The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you  love and respect, and who love you and respect you." -- Brian Tracy

"Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships." -- Brian Tracy

"Work all the time you work! Develop the reputation for being the hardest-working person in your firm." -- Brian Tracy
"Your willingness to risk failure is the only real measure of your desire to be rich." -- Brian Tracy

"Unshakable self-confidence comes from unshakable commitment to your values." -- Brian Tracy

"Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony." -- Brian Tracy

"The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline." -- Brian Tracy

"Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself." -- Brian Tracy

"In developing excellent time management skills, focus on changing only one behavior at a time." -- Brian Tracy

"The best and surest way to build a business is to start with little or nothing, and then to grow step by step out of your profits." -- Brian Tracy

"Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one sees or appreciates." -- Brian Tracy
"Become a strategic thinker. Set goals for what you want and create organized plans of action to achieve them." -- Brian Tracy

"Take complete control of your career path by research, planning, and active career development strategies." -- Brian Tracy

"Denying or refusing to deal with some unpleasant fact in your life is the source of most stress and unhappiness." -- Brian Tracy

"Use the Trial and Success method; learn how to improve and succeed by falling and learning from your mistakes." -- Brian Tracy

"Success is predictable and it begins inside you." -- Brian Tracy

"All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!" -- Brian Tracy

"The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past." -- Brian Tracy

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

"Be a team player. Support others and cooperate with everyone." -- Brian Tracy

"All causation is mental. Your thoughts become your realities. Your thoughts are creative. You become what you think about most of the time." -- Brian Tracy

"Guard your thoughts carefully. The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life." -- Brian Tracy

"Identify and develop your unique talents and abilities, the things that make you special." -- Brian Tracy

"The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time." -- Brian Tracy

"Time management is a vehicle to take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go." -- Brian Tracy

"Treat your time like money; how can you best spend it to achieve maximum satisfaction?" -- Brian Tracy

"Universal laws are always in force whether you believe in them or not." -- Brian Tracy

"Discovering a law and applying it will cause you to conquer and achieve more than you ever thought possible." -- Brian Tracy

"Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want." -- Brian Tracy

"You experience calmness and confidence when you know you are doing the right thing -- whatever it costs." -- Brian Tracy

"What is your vision for yourself and your life? Where do you want to be in five years?" -- Brian Tracy

"Develop the 'winning edge' in sales. Small differences in ability can translate into enormous differences in results." -- Brian Tracy

"A reputation for hard work will bring you to the attention of key decision-makers faster than anything else you can do." -- Brian Tracy

"The common characteristic of self-made millionaires is that they continually work harder and smarter than the average person." -- Brian Tracy

"Do more than you are paid for. There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile." -- Brian Tracy

"What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?" -- Brian Tracy