Les Brown Quotes

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

There are things one must do for oneself.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.