Brian Tracy Quotes

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

I just want to be a better person to the community.

Doing something for someone else, or working for somebody else, helps you push yourself beyond what you think is possible, or beyond what is possible just doing something for yourself. My faith, my family, whatever, if you're doing it for someone else, you're always going to push a little bit harder.

Community service has been a great thing for me.

It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

I just want to serve Colombia.

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.