Quotes from Brian Tracy

You cannot say the words "I am responsible!" and still feel angry. The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.

To keep your mind positive, refuse to criticize, complain about, or condemn other people for anything.

This discipline of systematic time planning can be very helpful to you. Many people have told me that the habit of taking a couple of hours at the end of each week to plan the coming week has increased their productivity dramatically and changed their lives completely. This technique will work for you as well.

Deep down inside, the average person knows that he or she is put on this earth with amazing capabilities. He or she knows that there is something better than this.

Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well.

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

Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.

If you stop exercising for any period of time, you don't maintain your fitness at the same level. You begin to decline. Your body and your muscles become softer and weaker. You lose your strength, flexibility, and stamina. In order to maintain them, you must keep working at them every day, every week, and every month.

Your thoughts create the conditions of your life. When you change your thinking, you change your life. Your outer world becomes a mirror-image reflection of your inner world.

To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.

Guard your integrity as a sacred thing; nothing at last is sacred except the integrity of your own mind.