Home » Quote » Les Brown » „you don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.“ „you don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.“ — Les Brown Related quotes „If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.“ — Paulo Coelho „You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.“ — Octavia E. Butler „Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it — don't cheat with it.“ — Ernest Hemingway „You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.“ — Jim Butcher „The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.“ — Robert Frost