Top 500 Brian Tracy Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.”

— Brian Tracy

252. “Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.”

— Brian Tracy

253. “One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.”

— Brian Tracy

254. “Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.”

— Brian Tracy

255. “You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.”

— Brian Tracy

256. “Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.”

— Brian Tracy

257. “Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.”

— Brian Tracy

258. “Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.”

— Brian Tracy

259. “There just isn’t enough time for everything on our ‘to do’ list – and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.”

— Brian Tracy

260. “Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.”

— Brian Tracy

261. “Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.”

— Brian Tracy

262. “Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.”

— Brian Tracy

263. “Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”

— Brian Tracy

264. “Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.”

— Brian Tracy

265. “Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.”

— Brian Tracy

266. “A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.”

— Brian Tracy

267. “To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.”

— Brian Tracy

268. “There’s only one direction you can coast-downhill.”

— Brian Tracy

269. “All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, ‘try harder.’ And if that doesn’t work, try harder still!”

— Brian Tracy

270. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!”

— Brian Tracy

271. “Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.”

— Brian Tracy

272. “Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you’ve done what you are expected to do.”

— Brian Tracy

273. “Change your thinking, and you will change your life.”

— Brian Tracy

274. “If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!”

— Brian Tracy

275. “Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.”

— Brian Tracy

276. “Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.”

— Brian Tracy

277. “To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.”

— Brian Tracy

278. “Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.”

— Brian Tracy

279. “You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”

— Brian Tracy

280. “You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.”

— Brian Tracy

281. “If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.”

— Brian Tracy

282. “Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.”

— Brian Tracy

283. “A wish has been defined as a ‘goal with no energy behind it.’ Hope is not a strategy.”

— Brian Tracy

284. “Don’t fall in love with your own excuses.”

— Brian Tracy

285. “Do one small thing immediately – often this is all you need to do to get started.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

287. “The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.”

— Brian Tracy

288. “The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.”

— Brian Tracy

289. “Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.”

— Brian Tracy

290. “If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.”

— Brian Tracy

291. “You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.”

— Brian Tracy

292. “Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

— Brian Tracy

293. “The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.”

— Brian Tracy

294. “You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.”

— Brian Tracy

295. “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”

— Brian Tracy

296. “Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.”

— Brian Tracy

297. “If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.”

— Brian Tracy

298. “An undefined goal is unreachable.”

— Brian Tracy

299. “The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.”

— Brian Tracy

300. “Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.”

— Brian Tracy