"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
Author, Speaker
Brian Tracy is a renowned author and speaker known for his expertise in personal development and success strategies.
- Born
- January 5, 1944
- Quotes
- 785
- Rank
- #328
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"Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour."
"You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights."
"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 every part of your life."
"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."
"Truthfulness is the main element of character."
"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."
"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."
"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
"Never settle for anything less than your best."
"Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change."
"One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented."
"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."
"Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments"
"Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you."
"Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do."
"Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you."
"We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all."
"A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions."
"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."