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you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

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Les Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: February 17
Motivational Speaker
Politician
Speaker
Miami
Florida
Leslie Brown
Leslie C. Brown
Leslie Calvin Brown
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Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.
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It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.
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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
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You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.
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You can't get out of life alive.
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Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.
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At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life...your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.
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You're either living your dreams, or living your fears.
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Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.
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When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
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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.
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The greatest revenge is massive success.
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
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Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.
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Failure is not a destination it’s an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
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Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
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Take action in order to move toward your goals.
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