65 Brian Tracy Quotes (Success, Goals & Motivation)

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

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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.

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The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.

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Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

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A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

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The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.

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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.

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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

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Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

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If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.

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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.

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

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The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

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

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Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

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Your decision to be, have and do something out of the 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.

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The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

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Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

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The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

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The key to success is action.

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Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

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Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

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Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

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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.

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If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you’re going to double your income every year.

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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.

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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.

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The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

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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.

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

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The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work.

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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

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Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.

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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.

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

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You become what you think about most of the time.

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You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

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

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

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If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen.

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An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

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

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Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

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