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I hope you find these Les Brown Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
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Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss,
you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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