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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Les Brown: “What Will Be Different Because You Showed Up?”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Les Brown delivers a heartfelt message on purpose, resilience, and contribution. Through personal stories of loss, failure, gratitude, and growth, he challenges you to aim higher, hold your head up through adversity, and live a life that truly makes a difference. Your circumstances don’t define you — your contribution does.

Source: 2009 Business & Finance MLK Convocation - Les Brown - 01/19/09

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0:00.0

When you die and everyone you know dies, unless you have done something significant with your life, it will be as if you were never born.

0:14.0

Whoa. Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

0:33.0

I am your host, Sean Croxton, as Sean Croxton.

0:36.7

Thank you so much for tuning in.

0:38.4

Today we've got Les Brown on the show to get us motivated on a Monday today.

0:43.3

Les is going to ask a very important question, which is this.

0:48.5

What will be different because you showed up?

0:52.8

What is the mark that you are going to leave on this world?

0:58.5

What's going to be your impact?

1:00.6

What's going to be your service?

1:02.0

How are you going to leave this world better than it was before you got here?

1:07.4

Lisa Nichols, she often talks about the dash, like the dash on your headstone. There's a year that you were born. There's the year that you passed. And then in between is the dash. How are you going to use the dash? Life goes by really quickly. Like I'm 48 years old right now. I'm like, damn, this is going way too fast. I let my hair grow out for a few days, like longer than I usually let it grow out. And like, it's gray. Like, it is getting very, very gray. I got like a head full of tensile. You know what I'm saying? And so, like, it goes so fast. How are you using it before it's done, right?

1:48.9

Are people going to remember that you are here, or will you be quickly forgotten?

1:54.5

And Les Also is going to talk about, like, as you're making your mark on this world,

1:56.8

obstacles will show up.

1:58.0

It's obligatory.

1:59.4

It's part of the process.

2:03.4

But the one thing that you have to do is hold your head up.

2:05.5

Les Brown is coming up.

2:15.6

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2:33.8

So your personal goal, what is that? Your professional goal, what is that? And your social contribution, I believe we live in the greatest country of world that gives us an opportunity to live a life of contribution.

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