Brian Tracy Quotes
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Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
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We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.
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Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!
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Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.
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If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?
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You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.
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Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
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An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
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We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.
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The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.
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It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
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Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
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You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.
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A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.
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If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
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I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.
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Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
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You can only have as much love for yourself as you can express to others.