You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. – Les Brown
Someones sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Les Brown
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. – Les Brown
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. – Les Brown
It was the hour of four in the afternoon, and already in hillside homesteads the day was nearly done. There was everywhere an air of that sweet, old-fashioned leisure which the world has nearly lost. It lingered in the slant sunlight that threw shadows across the winding road… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907