2247 | Les Brown: "When You Have a Golden Dream, You’re Going to Have Some Obstacles.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Les Brown shares an unforgettable story of Richard Williams, who dared to dream his daughters into becoming Venus and Serena — the greatest tennis champions in the world. With passion and fire, Les challenges leaders to face obstacles, rejection, and fear head-on. True leadership, he says, is about speaking possibility into existence, inspiring others to see beyond their circumstances, and becoming the living message of change.
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| 0:00.0 | You're calling forth the invisible. |
| 0:03.0 | You're casting spells. |
| 0:04.9 | You're talking about dreams. |
| 0:06.1 | You're talking about things that don't exist. |
| 0:09.2 | And you have to speak from a place from within yourself. |
| 0:13.0 | That people will become distracted from, we can't make it. |
| 0:16.2 | They become distracted from the poverty. |
| 0:18.3 | They become distracted from the international meltdown, and they began to see the |
| 0:23.2 | possibility. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm your host, Sean Croxton, and Sean Croxton.com. |
| 0:46.7 | We got Les Brown on the show to kick off our week. |
| 0:49.8 | You know, the quote that I really love from today's talk is this. |
| 0:54.7 | When you have a golden dream, you're going to have some obstacles. |
| 0:56.8 | That's just the reality. |
| 1:00.9 | And not just some obstacles, you're probably going to have a lot of obstacles that you're going to encounter along the way. |
| 1:03.0 | But as we've talked about in the past, you have to be willing to pay the price. |
| 1:07.3 | You have to be willing to go through it. |
| 1:09.0 | And you have to realize that the person you are now and the person who has the goal that you want are two completely different people. |
| 1:18.2 | And in order to grow yourself into the goal that you want, it's the obstacles that are kind of the soil for your growth as a human being. And so instead of |
| 1:29.2 | hitting the obstacles and getting discouraged and maybe quitting, you see those obstacles as an |
| 1:34.0 | opportunity. Another thing that I really enjoyed about this talk is when he's talking about |
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