Les Brown

Nothing.

When you want something out of life, you've got to be willing to go into action.

Don't wait around for things to be just right.

Don't wait for things to be perfect.

Don't wait for the ideal situation.

It will never be ideal.

There will always be a reason.

Well, as soon as the children grow up, as soon as I pay my bills, as soon as I get my divorce,

As soon as I get enough money together, do what you can, where you are with what you have, and never be satisfied.

A lot of people never take a chance in life.

They don't want to take any chances.

They want the situation to be ideal.

See, that's not walking by faith.

That's walking by sight.

I was born in a poor section of Miami, Florida called Liberty City.

I was born in an abandoned building

on a floor with a twin brother.

And when we were six weeks of age, we were adopted.

And when I was in the fifth grade, I was identified as EMR, labeled educable, mental retarded, put back from the fifth grade to the fourth grade, and I failed again when I was in the eighth grade.

I don't have any college education, but because of my mother, and I feel like Abraham Lincoln who said, all that I am and all that I ever hoped to be, I owe to my mother.