The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
—Les Brown
Topics: Potential
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
—Les Brown
Topics: Achievement, Change, Goal
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
—Les Brown
Topics: Dreams
Shoot for the moon If you miss you’ll land among stars.
—Les Brown
Topics: Leadership
If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
—Les Brown
Topics: Desires
You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.
—Les Brown
Topics: Purpose
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
—Les Brown
Topics: Growth
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
—Les Brown
Topics: Responsibility
As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
—Les Brown
Topics: Goals
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
Topics: Adversity, Fate
If you don’t stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
—Les Brown
Topics: Purpose
Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
—Les Brown
Topics: Goals, Goal
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.
—Les Brown
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
—Les Brown
Topics: Smile
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
—Les Brown
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
—Les Brown
Topics: Value
You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
—Les Brown
Topics: Character
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
—Les Brown
Topics: Fear
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
—Les Brown
Topics: Goals, Goal
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
Topics: Bravery
Goals help you channel your energy into action.
—Les Brown
Topics: Goals, Energy
Honor your commitments with integrity.
—Les Brown
Topics: Integrity
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
—Les Brown
Topics: Forgiveness
Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.
—Les Brown
Topics: Revenge
You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.
—Les Brown
Topics: Failure
If you don’t program yourself, life will program you!
—Les Brown
Topics: Control
You must be willing to do the things today others don’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.
—Les Brown
Topics: Generosity
Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
—Les Brown
Topics: Change, Survival
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.
—Les Brown
Topics: Persistence, Failure
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
—Les Brown
Topics: Determination
Don’t let negative people determine your level of success.
—Les Brown
Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
—Les Brown
Topics: Belief
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
Topics: The Past, Past
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
—Les Brown
Topics: Imagination
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
—Les Brown
Topics: Vision, Prophecy
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation—it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
—Les Brown
Topics: Fear
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
Topics: Goals
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
—Les Brown
Topics: Stars
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
—Les Brown
Topics: Fear, Entrepreneurs
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
—Les Brown
Topics: Potential, Difficulty, Obstacles