Quotes from Les Brown

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

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

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.

Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

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

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

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.

You must tell yourself, "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it."

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

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

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

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.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

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.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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