A few things that resonated with me during Les Brown's motivation speech was the inspirational quotes that he has been told by others, such as "someone's opinion doesn't have to become your reality." I have heard of this saying before, but it makes more sense now with what Brown's story. Another one is "practice only makes improvement, perfection doesn't exist", this really resonates with me because when you practice something for it to be perfect you'll only hone in on the negative parts of what you're doing, which can help improve, but if that's the only outcome you get from practicing it’s only going to get in the way of your improvement. So, saying practice only makes improvement gets you in the right mindset of being positive and can help your confidence and self-esteem. Finally, the last one is the African proverb, “if there’s no enemy within, the enemy outside can not do no harm.” This is self-explanatory no one can hurt you if you know yourself and is not an enemy towards yourself.