Best Of | Les Brown: “We are Settling for Less than What We Actually Deserve.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In another QOD classic, Les Brown shares his keys to self-motivation, self-mastery, and how we can all take better care of ourselves and have a bigger impact on the world.
Today’s clip is from Mr. Brown’s audio program The Power of Purpose available on the Nightingale Conant website.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are settling for less than we actually deserve. |
| 0:04.0 | And that is the quote of the day. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and dot com. |
| 0:37.0 | Now you know we cannot get through a best of week without the main man less brown. |
| 0:43.0 | And today's clip is one that I've listened to over and over and over again. |
| 0:49.0 | And there's a there's a passage in here that I'm always be winding and just be winding. |
| 0:54.0 | I got to hear it again. I got to hear it again because it lands in the right spot. |
| 0:58.0 | And he says many people will leave the universe without a trace. |
| 1:03.0 | No one will know they were here. |
| 1:07.0 | Every time I hear like oh man. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't want that to happen to me. |
| 1:13.0 | And then he asks, well anybody know that you came this way. |
| 1:18.0 | And what he's saying is, what is your legacy? |
| 1:21.0 | What are you going to believe behind? |
| 1:23.0 | What good are you going to do now that is going to have an impact for generations? |
| 1:27.0 | Well anybody know that you came this way. |
| 1:32.0 | As we wind it. |
| 1:34.0 | We wind it. |
| 1:35.0 | We wind it. |
| 1:36.0 | We wind it. |
| 1:37.0 | Because that to me is what life is all about. |
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