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
Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
Too many of us are not living our dreams, because we are living our fears. Decide to become fearless. Face the thing you fear the most. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. If you can laugh at it. You can move past it. You have the ability to do more than you have ever hoped, imagined or dreamed. You have GREATNESS within you!
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
It's important to me that money not be important to me.
Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
People couldn't get down here. They couldn't find it, so they'd go a different way and go somewhere else.
Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,
Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.
Sometimes you've got to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief kicks in.
Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
You may not accomplish every goal you set / no one does / but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.