Brian Tracy Quotes

There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures."

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

I suppose that fear of failure is what drives me on.

I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.

It's a fear of failure which drives me on.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

One who fears failure limits his activities.

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear