Brian Tracy Quotes

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I don't think I've worked with anyone where I haven't seen some progress. Now sometimes you can't take someone where they want to go, not all the way, and sometimes you stop, and they do it or don't do it on their own thereafter.

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

I always say that what's between you and your success is yourself.

Your ambitions - don't limit them. Where do you want to go, and what would be required of you to grow into that? Put yourself together a plan, and develop the skills to get there.