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Les Brown is an American author who has written twenty-five books on success. His advice has been translated into more than fifty languages, and his best-selling book, The Magic of Believing, has sold more than 20 million copies.
He born in New Hampshire, United States. His father died when he was only 5 years old, which made it difficult for him to find a job or support himself. However, he did not give up and started working for a dry cleaner as a paperboy. Later on, he decided to start his own business, which led him to become a more confident and successful person.
After 11 years of success with his own company, Les decided to move onto a motivational speaking career where he traveled worldwide since 2003, giving motivational speeches all across America, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
He is widely known as the “King of Motivation. Les Brown’s life story is worth being told repeatedly to inspire people to achieve their true potential. Check out his most inspiring quotes to motivate you to work on your goals to achieve your dreams.
95 Les Brown Quotes That Will Inspire You
“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
“No one will take better care of your dream than you.”
“When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.”
“If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for.”
“We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.”
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dream.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
“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.
“No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I am going to make it.”
“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.”
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
“Honor your commitments with integrity.”
“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.”
“Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.”
“I can’t control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.”
“Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.”
“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”
“No one can determine your destiny but you. Will it be easy? Of course not. Can you do it? Of course you can. But it requires patience and persistence. Seize this moment of crisis as your opportunity to start fresh, and live your dreams.”
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“You gotta be hungry.”
“If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.”
“I don’t know what you’re up against, I don’t know what you’re facing. But here’s what I do know: You’ve got something special, you’ve got greatness in you, and I know it’s possible that you can live your dream.”
“Goals help you channel your energy into action.”
“All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.”
“Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.”
“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.”
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
“Listen to yourself the voice that’s in your Heart not your head,it will lead you to your Goal.”
“You are the only real obstacle in your path to fulfilling it.”
“You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.”
“If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.”
“The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.”
“Leave energy drainers alone. Don’t let them slow you down and stop your dream. Your possibilities are too important.”
“You will win if you don’t quit.”
“If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser.”
“Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.”
“If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.”
“If you don’t program yourself, life will program you!”
“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.”
“Every day, we can either choose to be a victim or we can choose to live life victoriously.”
“Focus your energy. Find one thing and drop your buckets there. Do that one thing until it blesses you.”
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it. Then life will give you some answers.”
“When you don’t move on life, life moves on you.”
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
“As you reach your goals set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.”
“If you want to grow and develop yourself, embrace failure. If you want to become the best at what you do, you’ve got to be willing to fail, again and again. And then finally, one day, you can fail your way to greatness.”
“Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.”
“Want shows up in conversation, expectation shows up in behaviour.”
“There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.”
“If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.”
“Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there.”
“Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”
“No runner ever won a race buy looking over his should and demeaning the competition.”
“You need to make a commitment and once you make it then life will give you some answers.”
“It’s necessary that you align yourself with people and attract people into your business that are hungry. People that are unstoppable and unreasonable. It’s necessary to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dreams.”
“Honour your commitments with integrity.”
“You have greatness within you. You can do more than you can ever begin to imagine.”
“The greatest revenge is massive success.”
“You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.”
“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.”
“People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.”
“You have to know within yourself that you can do this. ”
“Don’t waste time bathing in the negative experience. Spin your energy and focus your attention on moving on.”
“It has been said,most people die at age 25 and don’t get buried until they are 65.Make an effort to live your life to the fullest.”
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
“Forgive those who have hurt you.”
“You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.”
“You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to DIE so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become.”
“When your why is big enough you will find your how.”
“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.”
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
“Not having goals is like having no idea where you want to go when you step up to an airline counter to buy a ticket.”
“Make change a tool for your success. Let it happen, and celebrate the possibilities.”
“The people that want to step into their greatness are hungry.”
“Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.”
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
“Life has no limitations except the ones you make.”
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
“It really doesn’t matter what’s going on right now. The only thing that matters is what you’re going to do about it. Do something powerful!”
“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.”
“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!”
“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. Go for it.”
“Tell yourself that if it’s hard, I’ll do it hard. I’m unstoppable!”
“Dig in, and expect good things, the things shortcuts won’t allow you to have.”
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.”
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
“It’s necessary to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dream.”
“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”
“The easiest thing I ever did was earn a million dollars. The hardest thing I ever did, and it took years, was believing I was capable of earning a million dollars.”
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
“You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.”
“Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.”
“Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”
“Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.”
