Les Brown Quotes

Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

I want people to use my story to stand up, be strong-willed and persevere.

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

I will get stronger. I will return.

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Man is not made for defeat.

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

John, you have broken many times, physically and otherwise, and you have always grown stronger, but what you don't really understand in my humble opinion is how much courage you give the rest of us looking at you.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

I just want people to know that they can make it through hard times like I did.

It's not how you fall down or how low you go in life, but if you can get yourself up and set an example for even one person, then you've done your job.

My favorite phrase is, 'God only gives struggles to people who can overcome it.' I saw it in a book, and it helped me out so much.

I want the other Victorias out there, the people that are suffering or going through something, to keep fighting.