Les Brown Quotes

I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

I really want to feel that I'm in a very balanced and good place in my life. And I do feel that. But I think it's always important to learn and draw little bits of inspiration from wherever we can.

Happiness is an inside job.

As I grew, I learned to love myself more every day and not pay attention to the negative people, which helped a lot.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

You just need to be happy, and once you're happy with yourself then you can do more things.

The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.

Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

You've got to feel better and then things get better.

Loving myself and thinking joyful, happy thoughts is the quickest way to create a wonderful life.

Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

Inspiration is what keeps us well.

After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of.

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.