Les Brown All Quotes & Sayings

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. — Les Brown

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you. — Les Brown

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. — Les Brown

We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. — Les Brown

The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use. — Les Brown

You're either living your dreams, or living your fears. — Les Brown

In order to do something you've never done,
you've got to become someone you've never been. I
think that all of us have great potential within us,
but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in
the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials,
failures and disappointments , which take us to the
door of discovery and greatness. — Les Brown

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs — Les Brown

Live full, die empty — Les Brown

In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life! — Les Brown

That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision ... it's necessary to know that ... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion. — Les Brown

Listen to positive music, watch positive videos or movies, hang out with positive, upbeat people. The last thing a blue mood need is more blues. Don't be volunteer victim; be a fighter. — Les Brown

Live your life with passion, life your life with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?' — Les Brown

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. — Les Brown

The key to success is discovering your innate power and using it daily. — Les Brown

At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book ... I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ... So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison. — Rheta Childe Dorr

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. — Les Brown

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you! — Les Brown

The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts. — Les Brown

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream. — Les Brown

Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people. — Les Brown

I learned from my mother that there is a greatness in all of us, and that all of us are delivered to this world with a mission. I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom. — Les Brown

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. — Les Brown

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

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 our their dream. — Les Brown

Perfection does not exist
you can always do better and you can always grow. — Les Brown

Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. — Les Brown

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames. — Les Brown

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. — Les Brown

Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can. — Les Brown

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. — Les Brown

Know your gifts and share them. — Les Brown

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. — Les Brown

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. — Les Brown

Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can ... with all that you have ... in the place that you are ... right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously. — Les Brown

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us ... — Les Brown

Forgive those who have hurt you. — Les Brown

There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many of us carry baggage from the past that hinders our ability to fight for the things we want in life, our goals, our dreams. If you learn in this book to let go of those burdensome emotions and memories, then one of my chief objectives will be realized; you will be able to pursue and live your dreams. — Les Brown

I know what I want in life and I will do whatever it takes to get it. — Les Brown

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it. — Les Brown

No one will take better care of your dream than you. — Les Brown

I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals. — Les Brown

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty — Les Brown

If you are not excited about your own dream, how can you expect anybody else to be? — Les Brown

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are. — Les Brown

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams! — Les Brown

You can't get out of life alive. — Les Brown

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. — Les Brown

If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing. — Les Brown

Make your move BEFORE you are ready! — Les Brown

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

You can't see the picture when you're in the frame. — Les Brown

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

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. — Les Brown

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. — Les Brown

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. — Les Brown

There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Do not give yourself another excuse to put off making up your mind. You know in your heart of hearts that once you do that you have got to act.
You owe it to the world, your family and most importantly, to yourself to live a life of no regrets. Stop worrying about what other people will think, say, or do. You only have one life. LIVE IT now. You have GREATNESS within you!! — Les Brown

If you're not willing to risk you cannot grow, and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy. — Les Brown

NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny. — Les Brown

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. — Les Brown

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others. — Les Brown

Provide more service than what you get paid for — Les Brown

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted. — Les Brown

Be humble!! Be wise!! Be wild!! Be love!! Be cute!! Be sexy!! Be sweet!! Be bold!! Okaaaayyyy... Be whatever you wanna be!! It's your life!! **Someone's opinion of you doesn't have to be your reality! (Les brown)** — Abhishek Kumar