Les Brown Quotes

Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I try to do my best.

Always do your best.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

Strive for extraordinary, don't moan, and sleep when you're dead.

You can accomplish anything in life if you are willing to work for it.

I believe one should work hard to get what you want.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I work every day to improve and reach my top.

Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.