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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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Ability is sexless.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
No involvement, no commitment.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Hey, lady !
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
If you love someone, set them free.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
To go fast, row slowly.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Don't water your weeds.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.