Les Brown Quotes

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

There was always the next therapy appointment, next surgery, next college exam, but with time and deep thought, those evolved into life lessons, which then evolved into perspective.

On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family meant to me and everything - 2016, there was a lot of anger from me and a lot of anger all around. I think the hardest part was to really realize that all these things, it's worth it.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

I've lost a lot in life because of my nature.

You can have ups and downs, and I know that as good as anybody because I've had them.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

A lot of people say if they could go back in time they would not change anything. But, to be honest with you, I like it and I don't like it. I like the fact that all I went through as a youngster made me a great man, but just goin' through what I went through - I wouldn't wanna go through that again. I wouldn't wish that on nobody.

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.