Brian Tracy
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Success is predictable.
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.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
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.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
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.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
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.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
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.
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.
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.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
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.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
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Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Begin with the end in mind.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Life is what you make it.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Count your blessings.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Talkers are no good doers.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Forget about it.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
What hump ?
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
What a dump.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.