Les Brown Quotes

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

I'm not going to throw the towel in just because things are not going great for the first time in my career.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

When you get disappointments, you bounce back.

I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.

Sometimes things don't go your way, but you get up and keep going.

I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Setbacks motivate me.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.