Brian Tracy Quotes Page 3

“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

“You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”

“Your life only gets better when you get better.”

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

“Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”

“Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.”

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.”

“If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!”

“If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.”

“If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.”

“It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.”

“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”

“People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.”

“Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.”

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”

“The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.”

“The key to success is action.”

“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”

“There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!”

“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

“You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.”

“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

“Changing habits that are no longer consistent with your higher purposes is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do, and one of the most essential to the quality of your life.”

“It is impossible to succeed without failing.”

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”

“The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions, unhappiness and problems in human relationships.”

“You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.”

“You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.”