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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. January 1944  •  Other names Трейсі, Брайан
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Famous Brian Tracy Quotes

“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.”

Brian Tracy

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”

Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy Quotes about people

“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

“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

Source: Personal Success

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.”

Brian Tracy

As quoted in The Lost Art of General Management (2004) by Rob Waite, p. 96
Context: Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”

“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

Brian Tracy Quotes about success

“Success equals goals; all else is commentary.”

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

“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

Brian Tracy

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

Brian Tracy: Trending quotes

“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

Brian Tracy Quotes

“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 very part of your life.”

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

“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

“You have within you the potential to accomplish wonderful things with your life.”

Brian Tracy

The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires (2001), Conclusion : Success Is Predictable, p. 64
Context: You have within you the potential to accomplish wonderful things with your life. Your greatest responsibilities are to dream big dreams, decide exactly what you want, make a plan to achieve it … take action every single day in the direction of your dreams and goals, and resolve to never, never, never give up. When you take these actions, you put yourself on the side of the angels. You become unstoppable and your success becomes inevitable.

“You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life.”

Brian Tracy

The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires (2001), Conclusion : Success Is Predictable, p. 63
Context: You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

“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

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”

Brian Tracy

Source: Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

“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

“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

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

Brian Tracy

Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

“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

“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

“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

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although
difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

Brian Tracy

“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”

Brian Tracy

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

Brian Tracy

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”

Brian Tracy

“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.”

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

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“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

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

“… you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”

Brian Tracy

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“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

“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

“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

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“To earn more, you must learn more.”

Brian Tracy

“Your life only gets better when you get better.”

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

“the better you think, the better decisions you make. the better decisions you make, the better actions you take. the better actions you take, the better results you get”

Brian Tracy

Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

“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

“it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying, "I am responsible”

Brian Tracy

Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

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