DON'T QUIT - Powerful Motivational Speech

[Music] weakness do i have weakness i am nothing but weakness i'm not naturally strong or fast or flexible i'm certainly not the smartest person in the world i get emotional over stupid things i eat the wrong foods i don't sleep enough i procrastinate and i waste time i care too much about meaningless things and not enough about important things my ego is too big my mind is too small often trapped inside itself now all that being said i have a say person's strength is often their biggest weakness but their weaknesses can become strengths i don't

accept that i am what i am and that that is what i am doomed to be i'm fighting i'm always fighting i'm struggling and i'm scraping and kicking and clawing at those weaknesses to change them to stop them some days i win but some days i don't but each and every day i get back up and i move forward with my fists clenched toward the battle toward the struggle and i fight with everything i've got to overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws as i strive to be just a little bit better today

than i was yesterday i can tell you everything i've done the only thing i can't do is grind for you what's the difference between a gazelle and what's the difference between the lion the gazelle is running from something and that's a lot of you in this room you will run you'll do what you're supposed to do as long as you're getting pushed but as soon as that stops you stop so you gotta ask yourself what's your why what motivates you what pushes you what drives you [Music] every opportunity is the last opportunity every opportunity i

have to reprove myself again every opportunity i'm still nervous e.t you've been doing this for years why are you so nervous because the day you become content then you stop evaluating yourself the day you stop growing the day you stop getting better is the day you die it's the day the person who's trying to catch you will get you [Music] and i'm here to tell you today if you got somebody came in my office the other day crying i said look don't cry to give up try to keep going don't cry to quit you already

in pain you already hurt get a reward from it fight go down swinging and i'll tell you if you fight with all you have more often than not you won't go down at all you will win but you have to make that attitude a part of your everyday life do the extra repetition run the extra mile go the extra round make the right choices give the full measure make yourself stronger mentally and physically stand and fight fight against weakness against fear against time and against decay fight back go down swinging give every day everything you've

got and when you face a challenge even something you don't believe you can win or a situation where you know you cannot win remember this you have nothing to lose so stand up go forward go out in a blaze of glory fighting with everything you've got every ounce of energy every bead of sweat every drop of blood until your last breath and then and only then can you stand down [Music] if you're gonna be successful in this game you gotta have a dog within you you gotta know it's a dog fight and you gotta go

get that fight life ain't gonna be easy ain't nobody gonna hand you nothing just cause you got a degree you think cause you got a degree and you wrote a book they bout to buy it out to you that's just that one boo in this game good people can't really handle them on the level that someone who's graded so you're praying for greatness and a problem comes and you're running from the problem you don't understand that it is in solving the problem that you become wealthy you don't understand that when you solve that problem you

solve something that a two other million people couldn't solve and so once you solved it that solving the problem elevated you the longer you wait the longer you wait i'm being real the longer you wait to get started and just start grinding the longer you're gonna wait to get to the other side and get that reward there's nothing wrong with the opportunity you're not giving 120 you're giving 70 you're giving 60 you're giving 50 and you won't with these people who've given sweats who's giving blood who's given tears you want what they paid for and

it ain't free it takes both emotion and logic to reach your maximum potential to really give everything you have to go beyond your limits because emotion and logic will both reach their limitations and when one fails you need to rely on the other when it just doesn't make any logical sense to go on that's when you use your emotion your anger your frustration your fear to push further to push you to say one thing i don't stop when your feelings are screaming that you have had enough and you think you are going to break emotionally

override that emotion with concrete logic and willpower that says one thing i don't stop fight the weakness of logic with the power of emotion then in the balance of those two you will find the strength and the tenacity and the guts to say to yourself i don't stop you don't belong at the bottom and it's time for you to get your butt from down there it's time for you to stop being comfortable at the bottom get your butt up and get to where you're supposed to be the bible says he was in a pig pen

and he came to himself and he went home get your butt up you are a royal priesthood get where you belong do what you're supposed to do live like you're supposed to live you don't quit now it's the 10th round you got two more to go and when you get to success it's not about skill when you get to a certain level it's about stabbing it's about stamina it's about you won't break me you can't touch me i'm far too long i fought too hard if i was going quickly you should have got me a

17 you should have broke me alone i'ma go i'm unbreakable now and you're gonna have to fight and fight and fight and fight and most of you won't be successful not because you can't do it but you can't outlast your own you long enough to get to your noon don't talk to me like that i guarantee you i ain't no loser i don't know i don't know what losing is when i was a kid i knew what it was when i was a kid i was a high school dropout when i was a kid i

ate out of a bed slept in abandoned buildings eight out of trash can when i was a kid i'll do what in my life i'm a grown man now all i do is win it ain't a song no matter what it's hard for you to see the light at the end of the tunnel i promise you man the lights at the end of the tunnel if you keep walking if you keep making one good choice that are too good choice good choices will always bring amazing opportunities i promise you man things will get better and

it won't be microwaved it won't be overnight it won't be instantaneous i know we want that but it's not greatness takes time when you build something with a foundation with choices and character you see character is everything in life your attitude's gonna really determine your altitude when you learn to have responsibility and respect and integrity and be punctual let me share with you the most difficult thing i've ever done in my life and it took me years to do and that was to believe that it was possible to believe that i can do it given

my circumstances born an abandoned building on a floor being adopted being labeled educable mentally failing twice as stupid no college training never worked for a major corporation to believe never thought about something you wanted to do and you talk yourself out of it there's a proverb that says if there's no enemy within the enemy outside can do what's going on that's why it's important that you make it a point every day and and you never stop because once you stop that's when those negative thoughts will come back once you stop that's when you will begin

to doubt yourself once you stop i'm telling you what i know yes every day it's a selling job on you it's possible i can do this i can make this happen no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets i'm going to make it it's possible feed your mind with words that you write in words that you hear and words that you speak to yourself feed your faith and your doubts will stop say to yourself it's possible it's possible it's possible even when you have no evidence to point to say to yourself it's

possible there's nothing as powerful as a made up mind [Music] you