Les Brown Quotes

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith and fortify yourself from the inside out.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Take whatever happens and try to make it work.