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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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Would you like to come in ?
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
The road to success is always under construction.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
The loving are the daring.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Well done is better than well said.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Don't quit.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Know thyself.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
They alone live, who live for others.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '