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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Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Only the educated are free.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Happiness is a state of mind.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
How do you live ?
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Experience is the best teacher.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.