Les Brown Quotes

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

The right way is the hard way.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.