Les Brown Quotes

It's not over until you win

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!

When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

There are no failures, only quitters.

I will persist until I succeed!

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Most people in life, give up too early.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

We don't win what we don't fight for.