Les Brown Quotes - Page 2

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

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

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

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

If you're going through hell, don't stop, keep moving!

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!

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

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

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

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.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

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.

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

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.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Live your life with passion, 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?'

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.

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.

It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

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.

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