Les Brown Quotes - Page 2

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• you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

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  Education, Motivation, Writing

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.

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  Believe, Want, Matter

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• Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?'

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  Passion, What Matters, Yesterday

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• You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

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  Motivational, Encouragement, Real

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• The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry our their dream.

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  Dream, Song, Book

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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

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  Real, Moving, Successful

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• You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

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  Inspirational, Want, What You Want

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• Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

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  Garbage Cans, Imagination, People

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• There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

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  Powerful, Mind, Changed

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• No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
  Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

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  Horse, Character, Bad Day

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• Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fighting

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• If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing.

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  Want, Ifs

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  If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

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  Strong, Powerful, Past

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• If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

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  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Growth

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• If you do what is easy, your life will be hard

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  Easy, Hard, Ifs

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• Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

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  Mistake, Book, Creating

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  Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

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  Giving Up, Powerful, Mean

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

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  Friendship, Hands, Cute Friend

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• If you're going through hell, don't stop, keep moving!

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  Moving, Hell, Keep Moving

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• Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

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  Inspirational, Memories, Powerful

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• The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.

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  Dream, Thinking, Shoes

  Les Brown (1998). “It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• No one knows what they can do until they try.

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  Encouraging, Trying, Knows

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• In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

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  Success, Achievement, Growth

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