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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1130 | Les Brown: “There’s Never Been a Statue Erected to a Critic.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On today's Throwback Thursday episode, Les Brown ( https://lesbrown.com ) shares why YOU have to be the one to encourage and motivate yourself despite the doubts, criticism, opinions, and “advice” of others. Source: The Best of Les Brown Audio Collection (Audible)

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0:00.0

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0:53.6

Welcome back to the Court of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a Sean Croxin.com.

1:08.7

It's throwback Thursday and we are turning back that clock all the way to episode number 257 in our

1:15.4

feature speaker, Les Brown. Today Les is going to talk about critics. When you want to be successful,

1:24.0

you are always going to be bumping into critics and that's okay. It's completely unavoidable.

1:30.7

Self-esteem is so important. Self-esteem is the value you place on yourself.

1:36.8

And when you have a high value that you place on yourself because you are a highly valuable person,

1:41.6

critics don't matter. You start to realize that. Actually, you just start to consider the source.

1:47.9

You know, most people are very small-minded. They live in their own self-image box,

1:56.0

feeling like they're undeserving and unworthy and incapable of doing what they really want to do

2:03.2

in their lives. So they apply that to you. How are you going to do it? You can't do that.

2:08.4

That's just their own self-talk being projected onto you. And it's your job to not listen

2:16.4

and to continue moving forward on your path to success regardless of what anybody says to you.

2:24.0

Because it's not your job to live inside somebody else's box.

2:30.0

Hey, there's going to hate. You can just continue doing what you love and just showing them.

2:35.6

You know, I posted on Instagram last week, I don't tell people your dreams.

2:40.8

Unless you know they're going to support you. Just show them. Show them when it's done.

2:45.8

I'm like, how did you do that? Well, here's how I did it.

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