Les Brown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
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.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Live your dreams.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
May you live all the days of your life.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Sanctuary !
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
There are never enough I Love You's.
May the Force be with you.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Work is love made manifest.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If there is a will, there is a way.
High expectations are the key to everything.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.