Les Brown has a dream, and he is living it. In 1986, broke and sleeping on the cold linoleum floor of his office, he began to pursue a career as a motivational speaker. By the early 1990s, he was one of the highest paid speakers in the nation. His company, Les Brown Unlimited, Inc., earned millions of dollars a year from his speaking tours and the sale of motivational tapes and materials. Brown’s audience is wide: from Fortune 500 companies to automobile workers to prison inmates to special-education classes to ordinary individuals. His mission is to “get a message out that will help people become uncomfortable with their mediocrity,” he explained to a reporter for Ebony magazine. “A lot of people are content with their discontent. I want to be a catalyst to enable them to see themselves having more and achieving more.”

Here is the compilation of his famous quotes and speeches that will leave you motivated.

“If you want to grow and develop yourself, embrace failure. If you want to become the best at what you do, you’ve got to be willing to fail, again and again. And then finally, one day, you can fail your way to greatness.” – Les Brown

“Tell yourself that if it’s hard, I’ll do it hard. I’m unstoppable!” – Les Brown

“It really doesn’t matter what’s going on right now. The only thing that matters is what you’re going to do about it. Do something powerful!” – Les Brown

“Leave energy drainers alone. Don’t let them slow you down and stop your dream. Your possibilities are too important.” – Les Brown

“A lot of people become discouraged too soon. The name of the game is, you’ve got to be relentless.” – Les Brown

“If you don’t program yourself, life will program you!” – Les Brown

“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.” – Les Brown

“No one will take better care of your dream than you.” – Les Brown

“It’s necessary to know that everybody won’t see it. That everybody won’t join you, that everybody won’t have the vision. It’s necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don’t want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.” – Les Brown

“No one can determine your destiny but you. Will it be easy? Of course not. Can you do it? Of course you can. But it requires patience and persistence. Seize this moment of crisis as your opportunity to start fresh, and live your dreams.” – Les Brown

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