Brian Tracy Quotes
Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
Quotes to Explore
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.
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When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
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I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
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Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
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I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.
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There are such strong women in my life that there's no chance of me getting too big for my boots.
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Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
