Les Brown's Quotes & Sayings

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

Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it! — Les Brown

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. — Les Brown

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. — 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

If it's hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy. — Les Brown

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

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. — 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

Whatever you're seeking-it's seeking You — Les Brown

Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold! — 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

It's hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame. — 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

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have — Les Brown

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci. — Dan Brown

In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was.
"That's what you always want," he said softly ... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves."
"Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love. — Anne Rice

It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed. — Les Brown

It's a new day! Let go of old issues, relationships, or apprehensions that are holding you back. Decide to move forward using the knowledge you've gained, from your failures and triumphs, while making room for new accomplishments .
Cleaning isn't just good for your house, it's healthy for your mind. Adopt the attitude that you can and will achieve your dreams, because it's true. You have greatness within you! — Les Brown

Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it! — Les Brown

See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ. — Les Brown

Keep the faith ... that the best is yet to come.
Keep the faith that the next extraordinary version of you is being crafted even now ... that nothing can deter you from keeping your commitment to achieving your goals set for today ... that you can better your best!
Keep the faith.
Move forward in spite of your fears and despite any evidence to the contrary.
Believe that IT'S POSSIBLE!! — Les Brown

Honor your commitments with integrity. — Les Brown

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band. — Doris Day

Do something about your life now. You know you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't just think about it, look at it, and complain about it to whoever will listen. Stop conning yourself into being a volunteer victim, or telling the same old story. You are better than that. It's time to stand up for yourself and your dream. This is the one and only life that you have. Don't waste it watching someone's life - on tv, in a movie, a series or reality show. Take your power back and make a move. Live your life on your terms, and create something new in your life. You Deserve! — Les Brown

The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused. — Les Brown

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. — Les Brown

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations. — Les Brown

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed. — Les Brown

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

Leap and grow your wings on the way down — Les Brown

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams. — 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

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you. — Les Brown

Sometimes you've got to # believe in someone else's belief in you until your # belief kicks in. — Les Brown

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement. — Les Brown

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character. — Les Brown

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us. — Les Brown

Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through ... not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve! — Les Brown

It's not over until I (you) win. — Les Brown

Failure is not a destination; it's an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES. — Les Brown

You will win if you don't quit — Les Brown

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. — Les Brown

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. — Les Brown

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. — Les Brown

At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life ... your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew. — Les Brown

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible — Les Brown

It's not over until you win — Les Brown

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

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. — 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

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

Forgive those who have hurt you. — Les Brown

Make your move BEFORE you are ready! — Les Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest revenge is massive success. — Les Brown

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. — Les Brown

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

Know your gifts and share them. — 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

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

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

What could you do to make a difference in the world? — Les Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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