Les Brown
Les Brown
Lester Raymond "Les" Brown, Sr. was an American clarinetist, saxophonist, big band leader and composer, best known for his nearly seven decades of work with the big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown. The Band of Renown began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, led by Brown while he was a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth14 March 1912
CountryUnited States of America
If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
If you don't program yourself, life will program you!
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
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.
In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.