More from Les Brown
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Les BrownLes Brown If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Les BrownLes Brown Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les BrownLes Brown You can accomplish great things.
Les BrownLes Brown There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Les BrownLes Brown Don’t confuse who you are with the results that you produce.
Les BrownLes Brown In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
Les BrownLes Brown If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les BrownLes Brown Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.
Les BrownLes Brown 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.
Les BrownLes Brown To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.
Les BrownLes Brown You were born to win.
Les BrownLes Brown You are the only real obstacle in your path to fulfilling it.
Les BrownLes Brown Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
Les BrownLes Brown Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Les BrownLes Brown You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.
Les BrownLes Brown
Original quotes
From our community writers
Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
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More on attention
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
PinkPink If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
Mick JaggerMick Jagger I admire you on how you always pay attention to every little things like they all matter to you.
A. DimitriA. Dimitri You are not obligated to pay attention to things that threaten your peace.
Ine GraceIne Grace Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila If something catches your attention, it’s probably going to catch the attention of others, too.
Lewis HowesLewis Howes Average is a failing plan! Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.
Grant CardoneGrant Cardone From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn