Brian Tracy Quotes

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Good is done by degrees.

As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.

If you want to effect change, start small.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.

Change, like healing, takes time.