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Personal Growth Quotes

"Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else."
Les Brown
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
Les Brown
"Make a commitment today to get up, get out, get busy and get things done. You can create the life you long to have."
Les Brown
"When we spend our time looking at what other people do or what they have, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to see our own value."
Les Brown
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
Les Brown
"You have to realize that there is something special within you, a basic goodness that you must choose to manifest in every way you can - toward your family, your profession and your planet. Each of us has something good to offer."
Les Brown
"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness."
Les Brown
"In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you achieve, that is most important."
Les Brown
"If you died tomorrow, are there three things that your eulogists could say you did to make the world a better place for your having lived in it?"
Les Brown
"I am often fascinated by the resiliency of some of the people I meet. Life keeps knocking them down, but in what seems to be outright defiance, they keep getting up, stronger and better than before."
Les Brown
"Are you taking your life for granted? Are you allowing your days to be consumed with boredom and frustration? Time is your most precious gift, not to be dwindled away in idleness or negativity."
Les Brown
"Nobody is going to care more about your goals than you. Nobody is going put more time in on them than you. You have to find your own source of hunger and motivation and let it drive you."
Les Brown
"Success isn't what you have, but who you are. And who you are can be measured in your character and in the positive impact your life has on the lives of people around you."
Les Brown
"It is fine to achieve your accomplishments and savor your victories, but there is not enough time in life to reason your laurels for long."
Les Brown
"By focusing my attention on the solution to the problem rather than the problem, I was able to quickly turn what seemed like a major crisis into an opportunity."
Les Brown
"It is no fun to fail, but you must pick yourself you and get back in the race. The only way you can grow is to challenge yourself beyond your present circumstances."
Les 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 Brown
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Les Brown
"Once you have committed to something and achieved it, you experience self-fulfillment - the feeling of success and empowerment."
Les Brown
"Positively charged people choose to react positively to life because they see no benefit in letting life get the upper hand. They don't assign blame or look for a cause when a problem occurs. They look for the solution."
Les Brown