No Excuses! Quotes

“Resolve to behave as though your every act were to become a universal law for all people.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“The instant you accept responsibility and forgive everyone for anything that they ever did to hurt you in any way, you liberate yourself completely. All your negative emotions disappear. In place of your negative emotions, you experience a sense of inner peace, love, happiness, and joy.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“The only question you need to ask and answer after you have had a negative experience is “How long will it take me to get over this event and get on with my life?” This is a decision only you can make. It is one of the most important types of decisions that you make in your own life if you truly want to be happy. What’s more, it is a true test of your mental and spiritual discipline.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Give Up Your Suffering The second root cause of blaming is justification. This occurs when you tell yourself (and others) why it is that you are entitled to be angry or upset in this situation. Many people fall in love with their suffering. Their past problems become a primary focus of their lives. They think about what happened all the time. They go through the day and even the night carrying on angry conversations with people who are not present, people who they feel have hurt them in the past. Whenever they get into a conversation for any period of time, they bring out their suffering, like a trader in a bazaar, and display it to the other person. They then recycle through the unhappy events of their lives, telling what happened, how they were badly treated, and how awful the other person was to have behaved in this way.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Zen Buddhism teaches that the main cause of human suffering and unhappiness is “attachment.” People become attached to ideas, opinions, and material things, and then they are reluctant to let go of them. Sometimes people become so preoccupied with these external factors that it affects their mental and physical health—even keeping them awake at night. When you practice detachment, separating yourself emotionally from things or outcomes, the negative emotions involved stop as well, like unplugging a light from the socket.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“The most harmful force in all of human relationships is destructive criticism. It lowers a person’s self-esteem, makes him feel angry and defensive, and causes him to dislike the source. So never complain about people or situations that you don’t like.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Never say anything about a person that you would not say to his face.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“In almost every case, when you see a dysfunctional adult, you can trace it back to dysfunctional parenting. When that dysfunctional adult was a child, their parents did or said things to them that hurt them, confused them, scared them, and created within them feelings of insecurity, anger, and inferiority.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“The Four Questions You Should Ask On a regular basis, you should sit down with your spouse and later with your children to have the courage to ask them these four questions: 1. Is there anything that I am doing that you would like me to do more of? 2. Is there anything that I am doing that you would like me to do less of? 3. Is there anything that you would like me to start doing that I am not doing today? 4. Is there anything that I am doing that you would like me to stop doing altogether?”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“People often say that “opposites attract.” This is a misunderstanding. Opposites attract in only one area, and that is temperament. You will always be most compatible with a person who has an opposite or counterbalancing temperament to your own.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Be patient, persistent, and determined.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“One of your chief responsibilities to yourself is to work toward financial independence and financial freedom throughout your life. The happiest of all people are those who have reached the point at which they no longer worry about money.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“People with high levels of self-esteem and self-respect get along better with others and have much happier lives.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“The flip side of self-esteem is called “self-efficacy.” Your level of self-efficacy is defined as “how competent you feel you are to solve your problems and achieve your goals.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Some years ago, Dr. Lawrence Peter wrote a book called The Peter Principle. It was an amusing book with a central thesis that cut too close to home. He wrote that in every organization, people continue to be promoted until they reach a level where they are no longer competent to solve the problems at that level. This is where they stop and stay for the rest of their careers. Furthermore, he pointed out that for this reason, every organization is eventually staffed by people who have reached their level of incompetence. This is especially true in government, and it is the primary reason why government is so time- and cost-inefficient, making it difficult to get anything done at all. This is usually true in any large bureaucracy.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Some years ago, Dr. Lawrence Peter wrote a book called The Peter Principle. It was an amusing book with a central thesis that cut too close to home. He wrote that in every organization, people continue to be promoted until they reach a level where they are no longer competent to solve the problems at that level. This is where they stop and stay for the rest of their careers.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —ALDOUS HUXLEY”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“What are my key result areas? Of all the things I do, what are the most important results that I am expected to achieve in my position? There are seldom more than five to seven key result areas in any job. It is essential that you identify yours and then work in those areas all day long.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Before you begin each day, start by making a list of everything you have to do that day. The best time to make this list is the evening before, at the end of the workday, so that your subconscious mind can work on your list of activities while you sleep. You will often wake up with ideas and insights for how to more effectively complete the tasks of the day. Then apply the A B C D E Method to your list: • A = “Must do”—Serious consequences for noncompletion; • B = “Should do”—Mild consequences for doing or not doing; • C = “Nice to do”—No consequences whether you do it or not; • D = “Delegate”—Everything you possibly can to free up more time for those things that only you can do; • E = “Eliminate”—Discontinue all tasks and activities that are no longer essential to your work and to achieving your goals.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“In personal strategic planning, your goal is to get the highest “return on energy” from your activities. Ken Blanchard refers to this as getting the highest “return on life.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Some people say that career success is most important to them, and then they go home and watch television several hours per day. Some people say their families are important to them, and then they go out socializing or playing golf. Only your actions tell you—and others—what you truly value.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“You Can’t “Save” Time The fact is that you cannot save time; you can only spend it differently.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“The starting point of achieving financial independence is to discipline yourself to rewire your attitude toward money. You need to reach into your subconscious mind and disconnect the wire linking “spending” and “happiness.” You need to then reconnect that “happiness” wire to the “saving and investing” wire.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline