Les Brown Quotes

Dreams grow if you grow.

I think you should always push yourself to want to grow and learn more and be inspired and develop.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

It's inspiring being surrounded by people who do more than you. It makes you want to do better. You're in the position to learn from the best.

But I like a challenge, anything I can't do it inspires me to learn it.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

Study the greats and become greater

The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.

If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.