On February 17, 1945, Leslie Calvin “Les” Brown was born. He is a political figure and motivational speaker from the United States. From 1977 to 1981, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives. In Liberty City, a low-income area of Miami, Florida, Brown and his twin brother Wesley were born.
Mamie Brown, a 38-year-old unmarried woman who worked as a restaurant server and domestic helper, adopted him. Brown argues that the label “educable mentally retarded” he received in elementary school destroyed his confidence and self-esteem.
He was the host of the talk shows The Les Brown Show from September to November 1993. From 2011 to 2012, Brown hosted a daily broadcast radio show on KFWB in California. Many of Brown’s speeches claim that when he first tried to break into public radio, he had a string of failures.
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Les Brown Motivational Quotes
1. Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.-Les Brown
2. 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
3. If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.-Les Brown
4. To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking.-Les Brown
5. Ask yourself if you’re one of the good people who successful people want to be around.-Les Brown
6. If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for.-Les Brown
7. 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
8. Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.-Les Brown
9. Making things happen in your life requires a faith, or an ability to believe that is unshakable, regardless of your circumstances.-Les Brown
10. Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.-Les Brown
11. It is important to surround yourself with people who life you up, encourage you, share your vision and inspire you.-Les Brown
12. Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life.-Les Brown
13. Each of us owes someone. We all benefit by reaching out and helping others.-Les Brown
14. 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
15. You can make decisions like that about your life. If you are carrying strong feeling 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
16. YOU decide what your limits are, and YOU decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet.-Les Brown
17. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.-Les Brown
18. 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
19. 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
20. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.-Les Brown
21. Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.-Les Brown
22. 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
23. Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.-Les Brown
24. Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.-Les Brown
25. We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.-Les Brown
Les Brown Quotes About Life
26. 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
27. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.-Les Brown
28. 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.-Les Brown
29. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.-Les Brown
30. If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.-Les Brown
31. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.-Les Brown
32.To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.-Les Brown
33. All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.-Les Brown
34. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.-Les Brown
35. You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.-Les Brown
36. We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.-Les Brown
37. 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
38. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.-Les Brown
39. The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.-Les Brown
40. Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.-Les Brown
41. Forgive those who have hurt you.-Les Brown
42. Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.-Les Brown
43. You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.-Les Brown
44. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.-Les Brown
45. Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.-Les Brown
46. If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.-Les Brown
47. The greatest revenge is massive success.-Les Brown
48. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.-Les Brown
49. Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.-Les Brown
50. Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.-Les Brown
Les Brown Inspirational Quotes
51. Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you’ll land in the stars.-Les Brown
52. 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
53. Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow.-Les Brown
54. Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.-Les Brown
55. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.-Les Brown
56. I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.-Les Brown
57. It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.-Les Brown
58. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.-Les Brown
59. You don’t have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.-Les Brown
60. Tell yourself that if it’s hard, I’ll do it hard. I’m unstoppable!-Les Brown
61. Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.-Les Brown
62. You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.-Les Brown
63. 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
64. When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.-Les Brown
65. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.-Les Brown
66. 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
67. No one will take better care of your dream than you.-Les Brown
68. The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.-Les Brown
69. Remember, wisdom comes form everywhere, I am always searching for ideas that can inspire me or others to reach another level.-Les Brown
70. 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
71. 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
72. Don’t waste time bathing in the negative experience. Spin your energy and focus your attention on moving on.-Les Brown
73. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.-Les Brown
74. Luck is nice, but work is something you can control. So get working!-Les Brown
75. Make change a tool for your success. Let it happen, and celebrate the possibilities.-Les Brown
Les Brown Quotes On Success
76. Focus your energy. Find one thing and drop your buckets there. Do that one thing until it blesses you.-Les Brown
77. Dig in, and expect good things, the things shortcuts won’t allow you to have.-Les Brown
78. If no one answered right away, just keep knocking until you wake them up!-Les Brown
79. 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
80. Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.-Les Brown
81. Every day, we can either choose to be a victim or we can choose to live life victoriously.-Les Brown
82. 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
83. If you have children who love and respect you, this too can be a sign of your success-Les Brown
84. 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
85. I can’t control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.-Les Brown
86. You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.-Les Brown
87. If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th one.-Les Brown
88. Honor your commitments with integrity.-Les Brown
89. When you don’t move on life, life moves on you.-Les Brown
90. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.-Les Brown
91. Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else.-Les Brown
92. 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
93. There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.-Les Brown
94. Goals help you channel your energy into action.-Les Brown
95. Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.-Les Brown
96. 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
97. Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.-Les Brown
98. Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.-Les Brown
99. No runner ever won a race buy looking over his should and demeaning the competition.-Les Brown
100. 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