Eric Thomas Les Brown Quotes

I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened. ~ Eric Thomas

As you look at your life look at your goals and dreams, it's better to be prepared for an opportunity not have one than have an opportunity and not be prepared. If you expect to reach your goal prepare yourself now. ~ Les Brown

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong! ~ Eric Thomas

Better is a book than a well built house. ~ Eric Thomas

I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success! ~ Eric Thomas

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me. ~ Eric Thomas

The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate. ~ Eric Thomas

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard ~ Les Brown

Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got! ~ Eric Thomas

Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today! ~ Eric Thomas

If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day. ~ Les Brown

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to. ~ Eric Thomas

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

...you will not live to see a just world. But you will live to see acts of justice. ~ R Eric Thomas

I'm discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do so the worker wakes up at 8am but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen. ~ Eric Thomas

Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. ~ Eric Thomas

Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it ... Or you'll never have'em. ~ Eric Thomas

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior. ~ Les Brown

Perhaps the thing that is even more overflowing with possibility than a crush, is love. In whatever form it takes, from whatever context it is drawn. With a crush after all there are sort of only two outcomes when you get down to it. It will bloom or it will whither, but love, love seems to have infiinite possible beginnings, endings, permutations, subtle shifts, and seismic changes. Love, I've learned, is different every time you look at it. Love is every possible love story all at once. ~ R. Eric Thomas

Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power ~ Eric Thomas

When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way! ~ Eric Thomas

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up. ~ Les Brown

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible ~ Les Brown

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ~ Les Brown

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are. ~ Les Brown

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser. ~ Les Brown

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. ~ Les Brown

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe! ~ Eric Thomas

Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about! ~ Eric Thomas

Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. ~ Les Brown

You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful ... Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it! ~ Eric Thomas

Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it! ~ Eric Thomas

At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life ... your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew. ~ Les Brown

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. ~ Les Brown

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it. ~ Les Brown

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative. ~ Eric Thomas

When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average! ~ Eric Thomas

There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Do not give yourself another excuse to put off making up your mind. You know in your heart of hearts that once you do that you have got to act.
You owe it to the world, your family and most importantly, to yourself to live a life of no regrets. Stop worrying about what other people will think, say, or do. You only have one life. LIVE IT now. You have GREATNESS within you!! ~ Les Brown

It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to persevere! Willing to stick in there! Willing to fight! ~ Eric Thomas

Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong. ~ Les Brown

That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision ... it's necessary to know that ... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion. ~ Les Brown

You can get through this. you are bigger than your pain, don't give up don't give in ~ Eric Thomas

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams. ~ Les Brown

If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight. ~ Eric Thomas

Some of you, your success has messed you up! You've lost your bite! You're not hungry anymore! ~ Eric Thomas

Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that. ~ Eric Thomas

Once you have dared to dream, I believe you MUST pursue that dream. If you do not pursue your dreams they will consume you; the knowledge that you had a dream but did not pursue it is killing knowledge. Consider it absolutely necessary to go after your dreams. ~ Les 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 Brown