"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."
- Les Brown
Love
"“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”"
- Les Brown
Transformation
"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."
- Les Brown
Personal Growth
"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness."
- Les Brown
Personal Growth
"Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are. Practice only makes for improvement."
- Les Brown
Personal Growth
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity
