Brian Tracy Quotes

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

Brian Tracy

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Running

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Go

• Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Try
  • Flowers
  • Construction

• As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

  

  Jorge M. Perez
  • Why
  • Painting

• The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

  

  James Galway
  • Mind

• To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Great
  • Environment

• All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Power

• And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Why
  • Stop