Brian Tracy Quotes

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

Everything is generated through your own will power.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.