Les Brown Quotes

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

If I commit to pros, I really got to stick to it, and I think it was a good decision.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

If you say you're going to be about something, let's be about it.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Whenever I start something, I try to finish it.

I firmly believe if you start something, you should finish it.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

There's no excuse for losing for me.

It's not can you, it's will you

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

When I decide to do something, I do it.