Les Brown Quotes

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

If, at the end of the day, you cannot answer 'yes' to the question, 'Did I do everything I could today to achieve my dream?' then you must adjust.

Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

In life, passion is the secret to success.

Don't let the reasons why you don't accomplish your dreams be because of you or a decision that you made. Do everything that you can possibly do to achieve that dream.

I need to motivate myself to work hard because only I can skate my program.

When you set a goal for yourself, you do what you need to.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me - I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn't playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses... what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It's all up to you.

You have to make every day count toward your dream.

I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.