Les Brown
American motivational speaker, born 1945
44 quotes.
Quotes by Les Brown
- A lot of people become discouraged too soon. The name of the game is, you've got to be relentless.
- Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
- 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.
- Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.
- Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
- Don’t underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine.
- Every day, we can either choose to be a victim or we can choose to live life victoriously.
- Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
- Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Greatness, it’s a choice. It’s not your destiny.
- Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
- I can't control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.
- If you don't program yourself, life will program you!
- If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
- If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?.
- In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
- Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
- Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
- Luck is nice, but work is something you can control. So get working!
- Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
- Never allow someone else's opinion of you, to become your reality.
- NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.
- Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.
- 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.
- No one rises to low expectations.
- No one will take better care of your dream than you.
- Provide more service than what you get paid for
- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
- Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else.
- That kind of spirit of determination and drive and hunger and willingness to endure defeats, disappointments, and setbacks, and to continue to move forward until you win.
- There’s a ritual that you have to engage in in order to step into your greatness.
- To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.
- Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
- 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.
- We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.
- When you don't move on life, life moves on you.
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
- You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.