Brian Tracy Self Quotations

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

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

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

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

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

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

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

The more you like yourself, the better you perform in everything that you do.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

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

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.