"You will never be able to do everything on your list. To get control of your life you must stop doing an enormous number of small things. Do your most important tasks more of the time, preferably all day long. The more time you spend doing the most important things, the more productive you will be on the outside and the happier you will feel on the inside."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Discipline yourself to do only those tasks that enrich and enhance your life and work and that give you a feeling of forward motion toward achieving the things you want and becoming the kind of person you want to be."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Clarity is probably 95 percent of success."

- Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Do something every day that moves you toward your most important goal."

- Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Daily reading is the key to unlocking a world of possibilities, enhancing your skills, and achieving continuous personal and professional development."

- Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!

"A goal unachieved is merely a problem unsolved. The only thing that stands between you and anything you want in life is an obstacle or a difficulty of some kind."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

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

— Brian Tracy, The Psychology of Achievement

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

— Brian Tracy

“Productivity is achieved when you plan, organize, set priorities, and concentrate on the most valuable use of your time, all day long.”

- Brian Tracy, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

- Brian Tracy

"Invest time each week to reflect, strategize, and set your priorities for the next seven days."

- From Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

“Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the superior person from the average person. Personal responsibility is the preeminent trait of leadership and the wellspring of high performance in every person in every situation. Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. You refuse, from this moment forward, to criticize others for any reason. You refuse to complain about your situation or about what has happened in the past. You eliminate all your if-onlys and what-ifs and focus instead on what you really want and where you are going. This decision to accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses, is absolutely essential if you want to double your income and double your time off. From now on, no matter what happens, say to yourself, ‘I am responsible.’”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Here’s how it works. Ask yourself, ‘Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t get into again if I were starting over today?’”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

- From The Miracle of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy

“The top 3 percent have clear, written goals and plans that they work on every day. They know exactly who they are, what they want, and where they are going. They have a blueprint, a road map, that guides them faster and with ever-greater accuracy toward achieving the health, happiness, wealth, and prosperity that most people strive for all of their lives. As a result of having clear, written goals, they waste far less time than the average person. People with written goals and plans earn and accumulate, on average, ten times as much as other people with the same levels of intelligence and education…Setting goals, making plans, and organizing your life around the things you really want to do and have are the greatest time management tools of all.”

- From Master Your Time, Master Your Life by Brian Tracy

“Every minute you spend in planning will save you as many as ten minutes in execution. It takes only 10-12 minutes for you to plan your entire day. But you will get back two hours of productive time, 120 minutes, just by planning your work before you begin. That is more than a 1,000 percent return on energy.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy