Brian Tracy books and success quotes

There are several books on my bookshelf at home that I reference often. One the authors that I enjoy is Brain Tracy. He had written many books on the subjects of personal improvement, success, leadership, and sales success. I find Brain Tracy’s books easy to read, informational, and easy to apply his rules.

Brian Tracy’s books I enjoy.

Goals!

Flight Plan

Maximum Achievement

Be a Sales Superstar

Create Your Own Future

You can certainly purchase your copy at iTunes, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or BrainTracy.com. I make no money on any of these links. Just wanted you to be armed with some of the best personal improvement material available.

Of the books above, Create Your Own Future is my favorite. This book shares 12 critical factors of unlimited success. I wanted to share the quotes Brain Tracy share at the header of each chapter or section of this outstanding book.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. – Thomas Edison

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do exist. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life be has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

The greatest thing that a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that he has been given him. This is success and there is no other. – Orison Swett Marden

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. – Proverbs 3:13-15

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better; faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. – John Paul Getty

The greatest revolution of my generation is the discovery that by changing the inner attitudes of your mind, you can change the outer aspects of your life. – William James

The best portion of a good man’s life, – his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. – William Wordsworth

More gold has been mined from thoughts than has ever been taken from the earth. – Napoleon Hill

The source and center of all man’s creative power is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. – Robert Collier

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.  – Johnny Carson

If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, at this very moment, and just where you are. – James Allen

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. – Winston Churchill

So many good words from the masters of success. Each quote a life lesson on it’s own.

Think…

Which quote is your favorite and how can you apply it to your life today?

Be smarter than the average bear

Did you know there are greater odds that you will drive one mile to the store to purchase a Mega Millions lottery ticket than the odds you will win? This is a true statement.

If a person drives one mile to the store to purchase a ticket and one mile home, they drove two miles round trip. The actual odds of being killed during that trip are one in 29,411,765. The Mega Millions ticket your risked your life to purchase holds a one in 175,711,536. You can check the math here.

Brian Tracy writes in his book Create Your Own Future that “Successful people are more thoughtful about the potential consequences of what they say and do than the average person.” I wonder if those who risked life and limb to get that lottery ticket were thoughtful or duped by greed, blinding riches, or the life of lazy luxury.

Growing up I had to be diligent about remaining positive because the home I grew up in was anything but positive. My grandparents were this brigade of something for nothing people. They were the ones who risked their lives to purchase unending reams of paper with losing lottery numbers. The odds were never in their favor.

If we believe Brian Tracy that success equals thoughtfulness, then we believe that success begins with thinking about our ultimate outcome. This is step one to achieving our dreams.

Step two is to picture your thought of success in your mind. See it so crystal clear that it is as if you are living your dream now. After you see your dream you have two choices. First, you can leave it to chance that your dream will happen. This is comparative to gambling in a casino. You may just get lucky and win and the odds are stacked against you. The second option is to know that winners always use planning and action to achieve what they truly desire.

How much do you desire success? Are you willing to put the rubber on the road and start travelling toward what you desire? Or will you get in your car and risk your life for a chance to win the lottery?