Les Brown Quotes

I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.

Freedom is not free, and we all have a lot of work ahead of us. And I perform the ultimate soundtrack to get the job done every day. We're not having any fun at all.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

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

All great careers are carved out by the sword.

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

I just have to keep working hard.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.