“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” —CLARE BOOTHE LUCE When things go wrong, when you experience sudden reversals and disappointments, your natural tendency will be to respond with negativity, fear, and anger. Whenever you feel hurt or threatened by loss or criticism, you react to protect yourself with the fight-or-flight response. As a leader, your first job is to take firm control over your mind and emotions, and then to take control over the situation, in that order. Leaders focus on the future, not the past. They focus on what can be done now to resolve the problem or improve the situation. They focus on what is under their control, their next decisions and actions. You must do the same.”
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Brian Tracy
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
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Brian Tracy
“You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you
put in.”
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Brian Tracy
“People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.”
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Brian Tracy
“Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.”
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Brian Tracy
“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and
farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your
thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never talk about the content. Talk about the outcome.”
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Brian Tracy
“Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”
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Brian Tracy
“Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’t true.”
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Brian Tracy
“The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and to your company.”
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Brian Tracy
“Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.”
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Brian Tracy
“The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear.”
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Brian Tracy
“The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you
want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
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Brian Tracy
“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.”
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Brian Tracy
