Les Brown: Live Full and Die Empty (Quotes & Video)

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Les Brown is a renowned professional speaker, author, and former radio and television personality.

He has risen to international prominence by delivering a high-energy message, which tells people how to shake-off mediocrity and live up to their own potential. It is a message that he has learned from his own life.

He was born with his twin brother in an abandoned building in a poor section in Miami, Florida. He, and his brother, were adopted in the age of six weeks by a single woman. As a bored and unmotivated student, he was mistakenly labelled “educable mentally retarded” in the 5th grade, yet his hunger to learn and his passion for self-improvement enabled him to rise above those limitations.

He went out to serve three terms in the Ohio state legislation and became Chairman of its Human Resources Committee.

Today, he conducts seminars and motivational speeches for Fortune 500 Companies and Organizations around the world. He is a recipient of the National Speakers Association’s Highest Honor – The Council of Peers Award of Excellence. He was also selected one of the world’s top five speakers by Toast Masters International and is recipient of the Golden Gavel Award.

He is known internationally for his ability to inspire and motivate people through his public presentations, radio and TV specials, audio and video learning programs, and bestselling books. He is an authority in understanding and stimulating human potential. His message changes lives…

Quotes in this video:

“There are 3 types of people: winners, losers, and winners who have not discovered how to win yet…”

“You have the ability to do more than you can imagine…”

“Greatness is a choice, it’s not your destiny…”

“Make it okay to fail: That which does not kill you, will make you strong…”

“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit…”

“You don’t know anything about what you can do… You have no idea what God has in store for you…”

“The tragedy in life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in having no goals to reach…”

“It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…”

“It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideas, but it is a disaster to have no ideas to capture…”

“It’s not a disgrace not to reach for the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach…”

“Work on yourself…”

“You must have at least five compelling reasons to reach your goals in life…”

“It’s called life, and it’s not personal…”

“All of us are ‘self-made’, but only the successful will admit it…”

“Language is the software of the mind because it will change the story in your head, and what you accomplish is a result of what you believe and the story that’s in your head…”

“Life is a fight for territory… Once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over…”

“Senior citizens have regrets of the things they thought about, but they didn’t do… now they’re going to their graves, not knowing if they could have done it…”

“You will win if you don’t quit…”

“To be successful in any area in life, you must be willing to do things others won’t do, in order to have things others won’t have…”

“All you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough, but make sure you do all you can do…”

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care…”

“If you look at a man like what he is, then he only becomes worse, but if you look at a man like what he could be, then he becomes what he should be…”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is the judgement that what you want is more important than fear…”

“Sometimes you have to believe in somebody’s belief in you, until your own belief of yourself kicks in…”

“Whatever you have done is only a tip of the iceberg of what’s possible for you…”

“Never stop believing…”

To the greatness in you:

“If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it…

If all that you dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and worthless without it…

If you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it…

If you simply go after that thing you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity…

If neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout, sickness nor pain, of body and brain, can keep you away from the thing that you want…

If dogged and grim you beseech and beset it, with the help of God, you will get it!”

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