Les Brown Quotes

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

I want to follow my dreams. I want to make sure that I put myself first and accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I want to inspire people to do whatever they desire in life.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.