1567 | Les Brown: “Never Let Anybody Tell You What You Can’t Do, Especially if They Haven’t Done It.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On today’s QOD, Les Brown encourages you to take the hits and keep on going. Don’t park! Stay in the game. Be willing to risk. And be sure to surround yourself with the right people.
Source: Step Into Your Greatness: Live Seminar by Les Brown
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all today's QOTS! Never let anyone tell you what you can't do. Especially if they haven't done it. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go! |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome back to the QOTS! We are leading off the week with our main man, Les Brown. |
| 0:42.0 | Today Les is going to talk about the realities of life that you are going to take hit after hit. |
| 0:48.0 | You're going to hit obstacle after obstacle but it is up to you to keep going. |
| 0:54.0 | Don't park, stay in the game. He's also going to talk about being willing to take a risk. |
| 1:02.0 | When you take a risk, there's rewards on the other side. Last but not least, he's going to encourage you to surround yourself with the right people. |
| 1:10.0 | Les Brown's coming up. |
| 1:14.0 | Here's something else that stops most people. You know what it is? Failure. Let us say together, I will fail my way to success. |
| 1:22.0 | Yes, right that down. I will fail my way to success. |
| 1:26.0 | The 8 out of 10 million years have been financially bankrupt. 85% of people allow their failure to outweigh their desire to succeed. |
| 1:34.0 | I believe that the reason that most people go so far in life and stop Maya Angelou said it best. |
| 1:40.0 | She wrote a poem she said that most people go so far in life and then they park. They pull off the highway of life. |
| 1:50.0 | They get hit especially when they've been rejected especially if they have an illness especially if they lose something. |
| 1:58.0 | They they they park and I take it further. They don't even turn on their emergency lights. |
| 2:04.0 | It's not because that they are broken down. They don't worry about his top. He said, hey, look here. |
| 2:08.0 | I've got some jumping cables in my trunk. You need you need a jump? Hey, look here. |
| 2:14.0 | I'm just stationed ahead about three or four miles. I have a can. I can take you out there and get some gasoline. Oh no. |
| 2:20.0 | I'm just fine. I had a talk show once and Kines rated fastest cancel talk show in the history of television. |
| 2:28.0 | Well, at least I had one. |
| 2:32.0 | And I was excited that you know when time I came into television years ago, television was based upon conflict and controversy. |
| 2:41.0 | So I said, I want a solution oriented talk show first concept of that time high ratings. |
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