Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Achievement, Strength
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Hard Work
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
Topics: Health
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
With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Self Confidence
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Discipline
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
Topics: Teams, Teamwork
The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Joy, Kindness, Purpose
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Progress, Self-improvement
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Knowledge, Attitude
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
Topics: Attitude, Control
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of our work.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Excellence
When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Confidence
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
Topics: Reading
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Decisions
The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Encouragement
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Planning
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
—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
Topics: Strength, Time
Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Dreams
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Winners, Winning, Events
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
Topics: Communication
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
Topics: Knowledge, Learning, Ability
For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Attitude, Responsibility
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
Topics: Growth
Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Joy, Responsibility
Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Goals
Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.
—Brian Tracy
One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Kindness
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
—Brian Tracy
Topics: Leadership
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