Brian Tracy Quotes
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A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.
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Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
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The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
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Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
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You become what you think about most of the time.
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Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
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If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.
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Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.
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If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
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Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
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One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
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I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.
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To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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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.
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Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.
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Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.
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Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
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You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.
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Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
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All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.