The full name of Les Brown of Leslie Calvin “Les” Brown. He is an American motivational speaker, author, former radio DJ, and former television host. Here we have a good collection of Les Brown quotes about life, dreams, success, forgiveness, fear, graveyard, inspirational, and motivational.
Les Brown was born on February 17, 1945, in Liberty City, Miami, Florida, United States. His mother’s name is Mamie Brown. His wife’s name is Gladys Knight.
Les Brown quotes
“Honor your commitments with integrity.” – Les Brown
“Luck is nice, but work is something you can control. So get working!” – Les Brown
“Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.” – Les Brown
“The fact is, discipline is only punishment when imposed on you by someone else. When you discipline yourself, it’s not punishment but empowerment.” – Les Brown
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
“If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for.” – Les Brown
“If you look the part and act the part, you’ll be surprised as the results you will produce. This is true with negative impressions as well as positive ones.” – Les Brown
“Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.” – Les Brown
“Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else.” – Les Brown
“If no one answered right away, just keep knocking until you wake them up!” – Les Brown
“Every day, we can either choose to be a victim or we can choose to live life victoriously.” – Les Brown
“A lot of people become discouraged too soon. The name of the game is, you’ve got to be relentless.” – Les Brown
“Set a goal that’s meaningful and compelling enough, and your skills, your knowledge, and your effectiveness will expand in order to reach that goal.” – Les Brown
“It is as though complaining is a substitute for action. I always appreciate people who are willing to tell you what they think is wrong, but who are just as willing to tell you what they think is right, especially if they are willing to take action on the court they recommend.” – Les Brown
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Les Brown
“Remember, wisdom comes from everywhere, I am always searching for ideas that can inspire me or others to reach another level.” – Les Brown
“Dig in, and expect good things, the things shortcuts won’t allow you to have.” – 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
“Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.” – 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
“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.” – Les Brown
“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.” – Les Brown
“Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.” – Les Brown
“This is the time to activate the thinker in you, to begin to become the driving, active force in your life. Things have changed and you want to begin to learn how to manage change, to become the driver of change and not a victim of it.” – 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
“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
“Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there.” – Les Brown
“The greatest revenge is massive success.” – Les Brown
“Focus your energy. Find one thing and drop your buckets there. Do that one thing until it blesses you.” – Les Brown
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.” – Les Brown
“Make change a tool for your success. Let it happen, and celebrate the possibilities.” – Les Brown
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown
“You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.” – Les Brown
“Life is challenging. Find ways in which you can begin to give more of yourself, ways in which you can begin to help others. Help somebody and help yourself because what you give is what you get.” – Les Brown
“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.” – Les Brown
“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.” – Les Brown
“Families are who we are, after all. They are a looking glass, and in the best of cases, they can be a source of empowerment and support for getting the thing we can’t out of life.” – Les Brown
“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.” – Les Brown
“No runner ever won a race buy looking over his should and demeaning the competition.” – Les Brown
“When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.” – Les Brown
“The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.” – Les Brown
“If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th one.” – Les Brown
“There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.” – Les Brown
“Making things happen in your life requires a faith, or an ability to believe that is unshakable, regardless of your circumstances.” – 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
“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 an UNCOMMON breed.” – Les Brown
“No one will take better care of your dream than you.” – Les Brown
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” – Les Brown
“Don’t waste time bathing in the negative experience. Spin your energy and focus your attention on moving on.” – Les Brown
“When I talk about consciousness, I’m talking about a combination of your hopes, your thoughts and your emotions, used as a force to act on what you see within yourself.” – Les Brown
“This is an age of awareness, age of the mind. Those who can think or create, those who are educated or trained, those who are resourceful, those who are good business people are the ones who will determine their own destiny.” – Les Brown
“Leave energy drainers alone. Don’t let them slow you down and stop your dream. Your possibilities are too important.” – Les Brown
“Tell yourself that if it’s hard, I’ll do it hard. I’m unstoppable!” – Les Brown
“What you have right now in your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Start by controlling your thoughts. We can’t control the thoughts that come into our minds but we can control what we dwell on. Start dwelling on the positive things in your life.” – Les Brown
“True honesty is hard. Throughout my career, I’ve faced moments where I’ve needed to take an honest look at myself and face some very uncomfortable realities.” – Les Brown
“Your ability to communicate is an important tool in the pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” – Les Brown
“You are better than anything that is happening to you right now. If you’re facing challenges of drugs and alcohol orang kind of addiction, get some help. Remember that nobody can help you unless you hold on to your commitment to regain, and retain, control of your life. Like my friend, resist all temptation to backslide into the thoughts and actions that cause you to lose control in the first place.” – Les Brown
“If you want to begin to alter your circumstance and alter your life, it’s very important that you begin to change your attitude about yourself.” – Les Brown
“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.” – Les Brown
“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.” – Les Brown
“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!” – Les Brown
Honor your commitments with integrity. – Les Brown
If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.” Les Brown
When you don’t move on life, life moves on you. Les Brown
A person with the right attitude says to himself or herself, I may be here in this situation, but it doesn’t mean I have. – Les Brown
to stay here. When faced with a challenge, do you ask: why me? – Les Brown
Or do you accept the opportunity for you to grow? – Les Brown
Les Brown, Up Thoughts For Down Times Challenge. – Les Brown
If you allow your self-esteem to erode, your fear will eat at you; ultimately it could destroy you. – Les Brown
Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal. – Les Brown
Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life. – Les Brown
To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking. – Les Brown
Dealing with life means taking advantage of each new challenge as an opportunity to learn and accomplish something new. – Les Brown
Negatively charged people sit on their “buts.” – Les Brown
Monitor your language. Listen to the way you respond to questions and situations. – Les Brown
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation. – Les Brown
must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. – Les Brown
Everything you do and every decision you make should be from a place of good. You should always be striving to make the world a better place. – Les Brown
I often speak to people who wonder why they continue to fail. – Les Brown
In many situations, they are concentrating their efforts in the wrong places period. – Les Brown
Each of us owes someone. We all benefit by reaching out and helping others. – Les Brown
Making things happen in your life requires faith, or an ability to believe that is unshakable, regardless of your circumstances. – Les Brown
Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. – 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 and to strive and achieve. – Les Brown
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown
It is important to surround yourself with people who lift you up, encourage you, share your vision, and inspire you. – Les Brown
Very often, the biggest hurdle in reaching a goal is getting started. And the second biggest hurdle is getting started in the right direction. – Les Brown
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. You can accept that you are afraid and then move on. – Les Brown
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Les Brown
I don’t dwell on the things that are too late to fix, but I do my best to get life’s lessons and put them into action. – Les Brown
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. – Les Brown
Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act. – Les Brown
Are the people around you holding you back or empowering you to move forward? If your life is going nowhere, take a look at the group of people you hang around with. – Les Brown
Make a conscious effort to let go of fear and act from a sense of consciousness that will empower and protect you. – Les Brown
You are strong. You are greater than the fear! – Les Brown
Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there. – Les Brown
You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. – Les Brown
Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead, give to yourself that which empowers you. – Les Brown
I have learned that to get out of life what I expect, I must commit myself to begin each day by. – Les Brown
concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals. – Les Brown
Reading about the lives of other achievers and their impact on our world inspires me to continue to help others realize their greatness. – Les Brown
One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. – 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
Set a goal that’s meaningful and compelling enough, and your skills, knowledge and your effectiveness will expand in order to reach that goal. – Les Brown
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.” – Les Brown
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
“Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else. – Les Brown
“If you have children who love and respect you, this too can be a sign of your success.
No runner ever won a race by looking over his should and demeaning the competition. – Les Brown
You can get the kind of results that you are looking for in life if you are willing to work smart to achieve them. – Les Brown
You gotta be hungry! – Les Brown
You can complain about the direction of your life all you want, but until you sit in the driver’s seat and begin to drive yourself, you aren’t going to get where you want to go! – Les Brown
YOU decide what your limits are, and YOU decide your level of success. – Les Brown
You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet. – Les Brown
Without a solid, realistic, and detailed plan, the goal is nothing more than a pipe dream. And without the commitment to follow through on that plan and put forth the necessary effort, the dream is nothing more than a good intention. – Les Brown
We have the capacity to change, to lead meaningful and productive lives by awakening our consciousness. – Les Brown
Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. – Les Brown
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! – Les Brown
Building your feelings of self-worth is critical to overcoming your fears. – Les Brown
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. – Les Brown
You can make decisions like that about your life. If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. You have to get rid of them. – Les Brown
There are people who are wise enough and motivated enough to change their lives and live their dreams, and then there are those who need a kick in the pants to change their ways. – Les Brown
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. – Les Brown
No one can continually insult you or hurt your feelings without your permission. – Les Brown
I believe adults and parents who do not get involved in children’s lives effectively forfeit any right to attempt to influence their lives. – Les Brown
It’s important to me that money not be important to me. – Les Brown
Ask yourself if you’re one of the good people whom successful people want to be around. – Les Brown
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. – Les Brown
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