Brian Tracy

See yourself as a work in progress.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

I did not breeze in there thinking: ‘I’m going to nail this.’ My heart rate was not low when I was doing the Golden Globes. I wanted to do well. It’s very bizarre to be in a room where everybody in your audience is famous. But also: it’s an awards show!

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much – unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.