Selected Quotes By Les Brown
"There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible."
Les Brown, Life
"Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"Don’t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible."
Les Brown, Life, Time
"Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!"
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"No one will take better care of your dream than you."
Les Brown, Goals
"If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing."
Les Brown, Life
"Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it."
Les Brown, Work, Success
"No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it."
Les Brown, Goals
"If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don’t do it."
Les Brown, Goals, Success
"Take action in order to move toward your goals."
Les Brown, Goals
"Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation."
Les Brown, Life
"If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy."
Les Brown, Work
"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."
Les Brown, Goals, Success
"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
Les Brown, Goals
"Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"Don’t underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine."
Les Brown, Goals
"Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong."
Les Brown, Strength
"Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over."
Les Brown, Life
"There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind."
Les Brown, Power
"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."
Les Brown, Goals
"Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act."
Les Brown, Life
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
Les Brown, Time, Opportunities
"To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have."
Les Brown, Success
"Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy."
Les Brown, Life
"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."
Les Brown, Success
"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."
Les Brown, Goals
"To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before."
Les Brown, Success
"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
Les Brown, Opportunities, Planning
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
Les Brown, Goals
"Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up."
Les Brown, Life
"It's not over until you win."
Les Brown, Success
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."
Les Brown, Friendship
"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit."
Les Brown, Goals
"No one rises to low expectations."
Les Brown, Success
"I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs."
Les Brown, Goals
"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."
Les Brown, Mistakes
"Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."
Les Brown, Life
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
Les Brown, Life
"Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."
Les Brown, Life
"Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll land in the stars."
Les Brown, Goals
"Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life."
Les Brown, Life
"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
Les Brown, Goals
"The greatest revenge is massive success."
Les Brown, Success
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
Les Brown, Goals
"Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit."
Les Brown, Life, Success, Goals
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
Les Brown, Success
"The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."