Tracy Quotes & Sayings

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant ... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us. — Tracy Kidder

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be. — Brian Tracy

Hey, Tracy you army brat, I think it's for you! — Mark Mackey

JOHNNA: When a Cheyenne baby is born, their umbilical cord is dried and sewn into this pouch. Turtles for girls, lizards for boys. And we wear it for the rest of our lives. JEAN: Wow. JOHNNA: Because if we lose it, our souls belong nowhere and after we die our souls will walk the Earth looking for where we belong. — Tracy Letts

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting. — Joyce DeWitt

Your soul rages. You cannot control your spirits within your body, so you need this to force others to your will." The king stepped boldly toward Meklos, holding the dragonstaff in front of him, the Eye shining even in the dim light of the temple chamber. "You need this
this crutch to compel the great spirits, and they rebel against you, Meklos! They are fighting you and calling the gods' displeasure against you. Your life is diminished by the length of this rod! — Tracy Hickman

If your business isn't the best quality, it will not succeed. — Tracy Reese

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy. — Tracy Morgan

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized. — Robert Blake

I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up. — Tracy H. Tucker

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. — Brian Tracy

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.' — Tracy Morgan

There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin. — Tracy Chevalier

Move out of Your Comfort Zone — Brian Tracy

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all. — Brian Tracy

Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. — Brian Tracy

I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey. — Tracy K. Smith

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them. — Phil Silvers

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved. — Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day — Brian Tracy

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age. — Tracy Morgan

Charles, a footman who had once worked on his father's farm and who loved animals, appeared and came over to help her prepare dishes of boiled chicken and brown rice for the cats and dogs waiting eagerly at their feet.
When guests were staying, Charles often assisted with the care of her furry brood. Without asking, he set to work, even taking a few moments to gather fresh meat scraps for Aeolus, her wounded hawk, and cut-up apple and beetroots for Poppy, a convalescing rabbit who had an injured leg. He gave her several more apple quarters for the horses, who got jealous if she didn't bring them treats as well.
Once all her cats and dogs were fed, Esme set off for the stables, laden pail in hand, Burr trotting at her heels. She stopped along the way to chat with the gardener and his assistant, who gave her some timothy grass, comfrey and lavender to supplement the hay she regularly fed Poppy. — Tracy Anne Warren

Its real symbolism is not to the westward expansion of the nineteenth century, but to the power and dominance of the United States in the twentieth century. — Tracy Campbell

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. — Tracy Keenan Wynn

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone — Tracy Chapman

Haven't you ever wanted something you couldn't have? — Tracy Guzeman

There is no such thing as 'getting' a guy, house and kids. There is only surrendering to them. — Tracy McMillan

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. — Brian Tracy

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work. — Brian Tracy

Communicating is like that, because the way we communicate with our children shows how we feel about ourselves. — Brian Tracy

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it. — Brian Tracy

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities. — Brian Tracy

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it. — Brian Tracy

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important. — Brian Tracy

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow. — Brian Tracy

How long did it take to become a gracious person? One who could accept help and give thanks without being resentful of it? — Tracy Guzeman

He winked at me over her head, causing my bra to try and unclasp itself in sweet surrender. — Tracy Brogan

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. — Brian Tracy

By the yard it's hard, but inch by inch, anything's a cinch
A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step

In addition, to keep your energy levels at their highest, be careful
about what you eat. Start the day with a high protein, low fat and
low carbohydrate breakfast. Eat saladswith fish or chicken at lunch.
Avoid sugar, salt, white flour products or deserts. Avoid soft drinks
and candy bars or pastries. Feed yourself as you would feed a world
class athlete before a competition, because in many respects, that's
what you are before starting work each day — Brian Tracy

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop? — Brian Tracy

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me. — Tracy Pollan

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. — Brian Tracy

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going. — Brian Tracy

The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships. — Brian Tracy

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting. — Tracy Chapman

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors. — Tracy Letts

And what kind of man would nurture and support her pioneering temperament, her passionate heart? More likely by far that she would be oppressed and raged at until her spirit was battered. — Tracy Rees

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school. — Tracy Reese

An average plan vigorously executed is far better than a brilliant plan on which nothing is done. — Brian Tracy

I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves. — Tracy McMillan

love is not comprised of words, pretty though they are to hear. It is comprised of the choices you make in every moment. — Tracy Rees

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty. — Brian Tracy

You don't always choose the path you walk in life, but, you always choose how you walk that path. — Tracy Johnson

CHARLIE: So you can't even see Ivy's point? MATTIE FAE: No. CHARLIE: That Little Charles and Beverly share some kind of ... complication. MATTIE FAE: Honey, you have to be smart to be complicated. CHARLIE: That's our boy. Are you saying our boy isn't smart? MATTIE FAE: Yes, that's what I'm saying. — Tracy Letts

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward. — Brian Tracy

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps. — Tracy Morgan

There was a moment of hesitation in which Joe looked into her eyes, and she looked back without flinching. Many a time, he had been at the same game with her, and she had always crumbled, bowing to his will. Now, he must have realized he was looking into the eyes of a stranger. She was someone he could not recognize, a foreigner inhabiting the body of that old Clairey, the girl he had abused, intimidated, and broken. Clairey decided then and there she would no longer cower before him. It was almost as if she were daring him to strike her in their unspoken exchange. — Tracy Winegar

If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long. — Brian Tracy

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes. — Tracy K. Smith

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. — Brian Tracy

BARBARA: Even if things don't work out with you and Marsha. BILL: Cindy. BARBARA: Cindy. BILL: Right. Even if things don't work out. BARBARA: And I'm never really going to understand why, am I? (Bill struggles ... it seems as if he might say something more, but then BILL: Probably not. (Silence. Bill heads for the door. Barbara watches him go and sobs.) BARBARA: I love you ... I love you ... (He stands for a moment, his back to her. He exits. Barbara stands, alone.) — Tracy Letts

Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket? — Tracy Ewens

Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world. — Brian Tracy

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. — Brian Tracy

Trends have come and gone and they're coming back my way so I'm super excited about that. — Tracy Reese

Since the beginning of Humanities every era has had an elitist group that attempted to dictate what is and is not acceptable forms of art. As time has moved on, what is considered the "peasant" class or the lower echelons of society have overwhelmingly gone against the elitist point of view. Without that continuous evolution art would not be where it is today ... enjoyed by the masses. — Tracy L. Darity

Start as you mean to go on. — Tracy Hogg

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
— Brian Tracy

You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair. — Brian Tracy

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't. — Brian Tracy

Take what you can get, and next time make it better. — Tracy March

An exchange is a transaction in which the two contracting parties both gain. Whenever I make an exchange freely, and without constraint, it is because I desire the thing I receive more than that I give; and, on the contrary, he with whom I bargain desires what I offer more than that which he renders me. When I give my labour for wages it is because I esteem the wages more than what I should have been able to produce by labouring for myself; and he who pays me prizes more the services I render him than what he gives me in return. — Antoine Destutt De Tracy

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself. — Brian Tracy

When they reached the peak, he faced her, gathered her to him, and gazed into her amazing blue eyes. "You look beautiful," he said huskily, surprising himself with his tone. He swept his fingers along the top of her shoulder and cupped his hand on her neck, caressing her velvety earlobe with the pad of his thumb. "You put this awesome sunset to shame. — Tracy March

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it. — Tracy Thompson

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success. — Brian Tracy

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years? — Brian Tracy

Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it. — Brian Tracy

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. — Tracy Kidder

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. — Tracy Kidder

The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won't. Once the initial high wears off, you'll just be you, except with twice as much laundry.
Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something
it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession
a free-agent penis
and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland. — Tracy McMillan

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself. — Brian Tracy

Never trust what a man says when he's focused on putting his schlong into your cookie, dear. — Tracy Tappan

Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time. — Spencer Tracy

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all. — Brian Tracy

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life. — Tracy Austin

you. It kept her so busy while she was here. The — Tracy Rees

Accepting that you can't control the outcome is not the end of action - it is the opening for the boldest and most daring action. You can accept total responsibility for your choices and actions. You are free to play full-out in creating and implementing an extraordinary future for yourself and your organization. — Tracy Goss

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect. — Brian Tracy

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too. — Tracy Morgan

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous. — Paul Russell

Ellis squatted down next to her and put his hand gently on her shoulder. "Clairey ... " Her name sounded strange on his lips for the first time. — Tracy Winegar

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services. — Brian Tracy

a person would never wish for tragedy, but there can be a kind of transformation that results. There is an awfulness to it, but also a form of grace. — Terry Tracy

Paternalistic is a very good word. They think they have to look out for these guys? Don't worry about it. Why? Because of history. Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant. They did okay. — Sonny Vaccaro

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. — Brian Tracy

Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete. In — Brian Tracy

Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst. — Tracy Thompson