Quotes from Brian Tracy

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.

Worry is negative goal setting.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

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

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.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.