Les Brown Quotes

If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.

One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.