Spoken by TD Jakes, Rudy Francisco, Art Williams, Ray Lewis.
Music: Oblivion by Cézame Trailers
#motivation #motivational
Have you ever had anything
bring you to the point
That you weren’t sure
if you could get out of this?
Somehow
it’s not the one thing
But it’s everything.
It’s everything you Went through all the years before
and to find out that the things are
Never gonna stop coming at you
that finally brings you to the point
That you say, you know what?
I’m not sure I wanna get up Out of the bed in the morning
if all I got to face is another fight.
Maybe you have doubt in your life
Maybe you don’t know for sure
what’s gonna be happening in the future and
It scares you.
Just that fear paralyzes you
And I just want to ask you today
do you think you have hope?
You can’t stop life from happening.
You can do something about it.
Life is 10% of what happens to you
it’s 90% what you do about it.
You got to stop tripping
every time something happens to you
Like it’s the end of the world
it ain’t.
It’s not the end
until you’ve given up.
Either
you lie to yourself
And get bitter
and blame everybody
For your own weaknesses
or you strengthen yourself.
You see, muscle
muscle is created
By repeatedly lifting things
that have been designed to weigh us down
So when your shoulders feel heavy
stand up straight
Lift your chin
hell, call it exercise.
Remember that life
is a gym membership
With a really complicated cancellation policy.
Remember
that you will survive.
Remember
things could be worse.
Remember
we are never
Ever given anything that we can’t handle.
When the world crumbles around you
You have to look at the wreckage
and then build a new one
Out of all the pieces that are still here.
Remember you
Are still
here.
The human heart beats
approximately 4000 times per hour
And each pulse
each throb
Each palpitation
is a trophy engraved with the words
You are still alive.
You are still alive.
Act like it.
If you don’t have something in front of you
You stop fighting
you stop dreaming
You stop reaching.
You need to have Something knocks you to your knees.
You’ll never discover what’s inside of you
Until something challenges you.
Life don’t give you what you want
Life gives you what you’ll accept.
If you will accept failure
Hardships
disappointment
That’s exactly what life’s gonna give you, right?
If you wanna win
You gotta show up and demand for yourself
success and fulfillment
And happiness.
In spite of all those feelings every day
Of just giving up
of just quitting
In spite of all that
it’s gonna be your ability somehow
To muster up the courage
to flush that out
To reach down deep
and find something inside of you
That will allow you to go for it
one more time.
Adversity
defines true character.
Don’t quit.
Don’t collapse.
Don’t faint.
Don’t give in.
Don’t succumb to depression.
Either way you go, you gotta fight.
All of us
we got the same ending
We’re gonna die.
So if you know you’re going to die
Why are you playing it safe?
I’m gonna build something.
I’m gonna make something happen.
I am not going to live and die
And not leave anything in the earth
as a sign that I was here
I’m gonna build something.
I will not settle.
Even if I have to start over
even if it took longer than I expected
Even if I had to make payments
even if I have to crawl on my belly
I will not give up on my dreams.
I will not neutralize my tenacity.
I will not give up on my integrity.
I will fight every day.
If you knock me down
you’re gonna have to do it tomorrow
’cause I’ll get back up again.
I will not go quietly away into the night.