Les Brown Quotes

Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

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.

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.

You must be willing to do things today others won’t do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have

Don’t underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine.

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.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

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.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.

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!

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

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

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

you don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

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.

 

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.

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve

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.

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

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

You can’t see the picture when you’re in the frame.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.