Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. – Les Brown
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. – Les Brown
Someones sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Les Brown
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man
Well, when youre the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, Well, lets hope he doesnt kill a guy. – Chris ODowd