Brian Tracy Quotes

I think if you look at the friends, the kinds of relationships I have, I am not the kind of guy who has many shallow relationships. I think you could say I am the kind of guy who has a few relationships, but those are very deep.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for that experience. That's why we continue to go to the movies and watch television.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

If you really want success in life, it's two-fold. You want to be able to take care of yourself and take care of yourself well, but there's the other side in which you want to be able to take care of yourself so that you're a happy person, so that you're passing those qualities and those tools onto your children.

Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.

Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?