Les Brown Quotes

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

Women love to impress and be their best.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It's possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

I do believe in self-help.

Improvement begins with I.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.