Brian Tracy Quotes

No matter what twists and turns your life offers you, your ability to be adaptable and flexible will help you to stay open to all of the hidden gifts that difficulty may offer.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

There are going to be bad things in your life, a lot of ups and downs, but the only thing you can control is your attitude. And if you do that, in the end good things will happen.

We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.