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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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Make the second effort your second nature.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
It's never too late.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
They can because they think they can.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The dingo took my baby !
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
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.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You're good, you're very good.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Don't think it, ink it.
The best things in life are free.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Kindness is always fashionable.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.