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Quotes from Les Brown

Then you are not pursuing your goal in life, when you are unfulfilled and just cruising along unconsciously, I believe that you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
~ Les Brown
Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow. Are you leaving a legacy of accomplishment? What mark will you leave on your industry? Your friends and family?
~ Les Brown
As Marcus Garvey would say, "Rise up you mighty people, onward and upward to victory.
~ Les Brown
There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams. Many
~ Les Brown
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults
~ Les Brown
housekeeper. She enlisted friends with their own small children to mind us while she worked for wages. When she took us in, Mama had absolutely no idea of how she was going to support us. She knew she wanted a family, so she made us that and then proceeded to so do whatever it took to keep us in shirts and dungarees and food. Many
~ Les Brown
Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. Focus all your energy on being a better person so you can become successful, no matter what the signs say.
~ Les Brown
peak-to-peek, conquering one peak and then peeking over the top to find another one to climb.
~ Les Brown
Tough times don't last, tough people do."     Motivational
~ Les Brown
It's possible, that's all you need to remember
~ Les Brown
Dr. Michael Kelley said, "You must be willing to do the things today that others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow that others won't have." People who are HUNGRY don't let life define them—they define themselves!
~ Les Brown
Indian activist, Mahatma Gandhi, who was a leader and guru, had a HUNGER for peace and justice. One of his sayings was, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Les Brown
We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.
~ Les Brown
The imagination is the only part of us that cannot be shackled. It is the irreducible essence of who we are, and it is that which allows us to see into our future. Einstein said, "The imagination is the preview of what is to come.
~ Les Brown
Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality
~ Les Brown
What lies behind us and what lies before us, are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
~ Les Brown
You've Got to Be HUNGRY!
~ Les Brown
As long as your heart is open to the possibilities, you will find that whatever you're seeking is also seeking you!
~ Les Brown
Mark Twain stated, "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you realize why you were born.
~ Les Brown
Life is the gift that keeps on giving. Appreciate that blessing for what it is
~ Les Brown
Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."3
~ Les Brown
People who are HUNGRY go for their dream, against all odds. They believe as Dexter Yager who said, "If the dream is big enough, the odds don't matter!
~ Les Brown
People say, "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings," but many people quit while she's just clearing her throat! Don't quit! Bet on you! When life introduces interruptions, when challenges block your path, bet on you!
~ Les Brown
Dr. Carter G. Woodson who said: "If you can determine what a man shall think, you will never have to concern yourself with what he will do. If you can make a man feel inferior, you will never have to compel him to seek an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you can make a man feel justly an outcast, you will never have to order him to the back door. He will go there himself, and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one!
~ Les Brown