063 | Les Brown: “You Don’t Get in Life What You Want. You Get in Life What You Are.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
No one tells a story like Les Brown! Today Les shares how he landed a job he was seemingly “unqualified” for, why you MUST have ambitious goals, and the best ways to renew your mind on a daily basis.
This clip comes from Les’s audio program The Greatness Within You available on Audible.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't get in life what you want. |
| 0:02.8 | You get in life what you are. |
| 0:05.0 | And that is the quote of the day. |
| 0:07.6 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm your host Sean Croxson of Sean Croxson.com. |
| 0:38.1 | It's Tuesday and the quote machine is back. |
| 0:41.0 | Yes, Les Brown is back on the show today. |
| 0:44.0 | And he's encouraging you to get out of your comfort zone. |
| 0:47.4 | Because when you get out of your comfort zone, |
| 0:49.4 | that's when you really get to find out who you are and what |
| 0:52.9 | you're capable of. |
| 0:53.8 | There's some really great stories in this one. |
| 0:56.2 | I can't wait for you to hear them. |
| 0:57.2 | So here's Les. |
| 1:05.3 | Absolutely faith. |
| 1:08.4 | And if you don't believe in yourself, believe in somebody else's |
| 1:13.0 | belief in you. |
| 1:14.9 | Sometimes you have to borrow somebody else's faith until your |
| 1:18.8 | faith kicks in. |
| 1:24.8 | On that faithful day when Mr. Washington looked at me, he |
| 1:27.8 | looked at me in the eyes of Gerda who said, look at a man the |
| 1:30.5 | way that he is. |
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