you're going to have ups and downs
in life things are going to go wrong you're going to lose businesses you're
going to lose jobs you're going to break up and there are times when you get injured and
there are times when you get mentally defeated and you feel like you don't want to
do it anymore and those days go on and on and on things are going to go wrong and
what you need to do is to keep moving forward no matter what happens keep moving forward we all
go through pain get a reward for
yours there's some things in life you don't need no degree
for you don't need no money for it you don't need no support for it there's something in life
you just gonna get through when you tell yourself I'm gonna get through this I need you to look
at that sickness that's going on in your life right now whatever it is I want you to say I
can't be I can't beat it I will beat it I must you think it's gonna be easy forget about
it all right don't even try to be successful it's a wrap it's not
going to be easy but I
want you to feel that pain going through your body and as pain leads your body guess
what's going to take its place success and when that thing tells you to quit you look
at it in his eye and say I ain't going nowhere I will break you before you break me you will not
defeat me you will not destroy me I'm unbreakable now life is going to see how bad you want what
you say you want impose your will on it life will give in to you if it knows you're serious about
whatever
it is that you're trying to do life will give in to you whenever you start you make sure
you finish if you do not kill me you will not stop my drive no Petty adversity will not stop me
I have to complete every mission that I set out on your mind and attitude is all you need to be
successful that's all you need you don't need to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth you
don't need money you don't even need folks that like you as long as you believe in you you got
the right mindset you g
ot the right attitude we can make it happen I don't care what's going on
around you because it's not what happens around you that determines your success it's what
happens inside you and you can't control the elements but you can control your attitude and
you can control your mindset you get one shot opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better
make the kind of decisions that's going to take you to the NBA you better make the right decisions
that's gonna take you to the NFL you better ma
ke the right decisions that are gonna land you the
next special rapper the next business tycoon is one thing to talk about your destiny is one thing
to dream about your destiny but it's another thing to wake up when you know you're supposed to wake
up to right when you don't feel like writing that don't stop but you put in 50 more push-ups you
can't just talk about it you gotta be a body you gonna face some hard times you're gonna get
slapped around and don't take it personal don't ask why
did this have to happen to me it's called
life it happens to everybody you could plan your life to be ideal today and I guarantee you there
will be things that happen along the way that were unplanned that will look as if they're
unfortunate they will feel as if the world's coming down on your shoulders but those are also
the greatest lessons some of the best things that we've ever learned from people happen because
they were going through some time of discontent and they said how do I over
come this what can
I do about it and there's other people that would have to face that if it wasn't for that
knowledge if it wasn't for that experience but it's because they did something they didn't just
fall victim to that see a lot of people want to exempt themselves from taking responsibility
all they want to do is talk about the problem every time you see them they'll tell you their
story over and over and over and over again no no you want to take responsibility for your
life I got m
e here I can get me out of this and I'm getting out you can decide that you're
going to change that you're not going to be a wimp I'm not going to be a volunteer victim when
your day is a museum of disappointments hanging from events that were outside of your control
when you find yourself flailing in an ocean of why is this happening to me where you get puts in
the esophagus by a festival of Life 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 four thousand times per hour and
it's pulse eats throb each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words you are still alive act
like it from this day forward set out to achieve greatness not by looking for someone to give it to
you but by going through all of t
he blood all of the sweat all of the hard work by going to work
to set your own inner greatness free no matter what anyone else has said or how anyone else has
made you feel before it's there so you've had it harder than other people well then you're gonna
have to work a little harder but trust me when I say you have greatness inside you wherever
we are with whatever hand that life is down we have the freedom of spirit we can go through
life lining and weeping or we can have the kind of spi
rit that regardless of what happens to you
you can stand up inside of yourself you have an uncomfortable soul you got to get up to find
your purpose some of you getting up means all right here I am I got some challenges I'm tired of
being quiet about others of you getting up means I'm fighting back I'm going to a doctor getting
up means I'm going back to counseling getting up says all right I'm gonna start the medication
again getting up is you know what maybe I can get a job maybe my missi
on has not been destroyed by
my depression I'm getting up it can be painful it will be uncomfortable and that's where the growth
is when you're stretching out when you're taking life by the color you're gonna get thrown to the
ground again and again and again but when you have determination and you know that what you're
doing is right it gives you your life it gives a special meaning and power to you you'll begin
to discover some things about you that you don't know you've got when you put
yourself in that type
of challenging situation the journey is not easy everyone's hot off the start but after a
month or so into it with the wear and tear and the grind starts to hit you you start
losing focus on the horizon do you not you get called away in the daily hiccups
the ups and downs and the wear and tear and you focus on the speed bumps the daily
activities losing sight of their true purpose most of you won't be successful because when
you're studying and you get tired you quit
don't cry to give up cry to keep going don't cry
to quit you already in pain you already hurt get a reward from it the difference between a winner and
a loser the value is there every single time it's just the winner gets back up and does it again and
does it again until it goes his way I don't care how hard you fall I don't care if nobody don't
believe in you it only takes you believing in yourself to get this thing done and listen to me
it ain't failure if you learn from it baby so if you
fall following your back so you can look up
because if you can look up then you can get up I dare you to take a little pain I dare you at
the end of paying a success if you can stay in if you can stay in the fight then you can
dictate your own future I dare you to fail I dare you to take that same class over and
over again I dare you to stop dropping classes like you saw see get what you want is up to
you you turn your life around if you change your attitude you change your attitude you
c
hange your altitude it's okay to not be okay just not okay to stay that way the one thing
I know about emotions is that they change one hour from right now you will not feel
the same way and I want to encourage you tonight that you might be in your darkest
moment you might be going through hell in high water but I know this it is always too
soon to quit you have a reason to live your best days are in front of you get up your
future is brighter than your past get up your ladder is greater th
an your former get
up because the best is still yet to come see we gotta look our trauma in the face we
gotta embrace the pain in the darkness and allow it to mold us the dark times are when
we build higher dream harder push further love deeper that's forming your future it's
pushing you forward what will your response be am I gonna sit back are you gonna step up
that is a moment of choice that is a moment of decision adversity creates the perfect moment
for audacity it's in your adversity
the thing that comes out of you is what defines behind you
when life is squeezing you and pressure is on you what's really inside of you
when you go through a storm through that kind of experience and able to
reclaim your life you come back with a certain kind of power and you will never be the same again
after that experience there are certain things when you go through those things and you come up
out of those things you come up different kind of person different Spirit different Power d
ifferent
energies don't ever say when you're going through some rough time I'm going through a really bad
tragic time no see I'm going through a character building experience take full responsibility
for your life accept where you are and the responsibility that you're going to take yourself
where you want to go we have two primary choices in life we even accept conditions as they exist
or we can take the responsibility to change them that setback is going to become a
comeback go through t
he darkness come out on the other side something new and
allow that person change the world so many of us we've gone through life and life has let us down you can find yourself stressed out
you can find yourself depressed mentally fragile because of the experiences
the turbulence that you have gone through I know what it's like to barely hold
on to barely feel like you're breathing and barely feel like you can come up for air
when you're down in that hole look up look up and recognize that
there is a way out there is
a path for you to take and it's not an easy path it takes courage and it's hard [Music] but what
is the other choice what else can we do let the darkness completely consume us be over taken
by temptation advice no do not accept that you could triumph over these dark Forces
you can become better you can be better growth is faster and deeper
during your darkest days through that separation through that unemployment
through that tragedy through that loss and maybe
you've been knocked down in your
life and it seems like hey the fight is over it is not over unless you quit you
take those terrible events in your life and you create a new story of Triumph see there's
some people in this room right now that you need to hear this loud and clear you need to get this
in your spirit because I don't know what you're walking through but some of you right now you
are in a tough season an event has happened and Something's Happened and maybe you have failed
but
I want to remind you that failure is not final it's formative it is part of the process
it's part of the journey your failure matters as much as your success how do you think you're
gonna grow if you don't ever fail yet some of you have failed and you have decided well guess what
I'm a failure no failure is an event it is never a person just because you failed doesn't mean that
you're a failure in fact failure is actually fuel for your future the way that you grow the way that
you advance y
ou have to fail in order to succeed the darker the night the brighter the morning this
too shall pass you're gonna get through this thing you might not be in control of the storm but
you can have the courage to face the storms I'm not gonna back down I'm not going to run
away I'm gonna walk through this thing because I believe this thing is leading me to another
miracle you see the fight's not over if you've been knocked down it's only over if you quit if
you make the decision to get out on
e more time I'm telling you you will win the fight I know
what you're gonna do countless hours setting up thinking if your life will ever get better
thinking about everybody has passed away just walked out your life there are some things in life
that are out of your control that you can't change and you're gonna live with the choice that we
have though is either to give up or keep on going I want to ask you what are you going
to believe are you going to believe in yourself you're gonna beli
eve everybody
else's judgment on you are you gonna believe people when they say that you're a failure no one
really likes you no one really cares about you people ask you how you are and you say fine
but you're not fine and they'll never know that there are some times in life where you fall down and you feel like you don't have the strength
to get back up maybe you have doubt in your life maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be
happening in the future and it scares you maybe you're
worried about what people think of you what
people say about you it's that fear paralyzes you and I just want to ask you today do you think you
have hope you see I will try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times if I fail and I give up do
you think that I'm ever gonna get up no if I fail I try again and again and again for as long as I
try there's always that chance of getting up and it's not the end until you've given up and just
the fact that you're here should persuade you that you
have another chance to get back up there's
still hope I want to challenge you tonight to I invested too much to quit I made too many
sacrifices to give up we've come too far we've been through too much we've seen too much we've
had too many victories we have seen defeat we've looked defeated face and we've overcome it
we've come too far to give up now we've come too far to be negative now we've come too far
to start overthinking now so when life happens I'll just sit there and cry I brough
t back I
work back and the process is not supposed to be comfortable so if it hurts welcome to the
big leagues if you feel like you're under Heat if you feel like you're being pressured praise
God but when God looks like he's pulling you back eventually he's gonna let you go and
the farther he pulls you back [Applause] the father he pulls you back once he releases you
boom the spirit of resiliency the spirit of grit is in your DNA it's in your blood overcoming is
in your blood getting thro
ugh adversity is in your blood your ancestors got through so much more we
will be all right we need to focus on where we're going not where we come from and what's happening
I just need you to keep walking toward it I don't need you thinking about it no more you're
doing too much thinking you analyze it too much too much you talking yourself out of it I don't
know if it's gonna work I try and it didn't work I just need you to keep moving I need you to make up
in your mind that the only way
you can lose is if you quit I just need you to keep going you gotta
tell life I don't know who you've been dealing with but you ain't dealt with me you know I tell
bankruptcy you gotta tell divorce you gotta tell sickness I don't know who you've been dealing with
that you come up against the wrong one this time you can be and do whatever you want and nobody can
stop you nobody can stop you but you when I start listening to Adele Adele blew my mind because as
I was listening to her music I c
ould tell that this was real to her and as I started studying
the girl I found out I discovered that she had been through a breakup they said her album 21 like
she started the album stop for months because she had no creativity right but then it said all of
a sudden her man broke up with her and now when he break up with her he broke up with her God with
somebody else and got engaged in a matter of weeks it broke her it broke her it broke her so much
God is so good sometimes he got to break
us to bring the creativity out of us right sir he
breaks sir he breaks her heart and she goes into the studio and when she goes into the studio
she just doesn't sing something she made up she actually seen something that's true to her heart
at first Yup she's gifted yup she knows how to write but it was kind of in the outer space but
then something happened to her something broke her and when that thing broke her something
within happened to her at first it was just external but then somet
hing internal happened and
sister girl got up and said take me in the studio turn on the music Turn on the thousand I got
some form and she's saying it like she never sang anything else and let me tell you something
out of that pain how that hurt came the best album the best single the best song in six Grammys
and I'm telling you right now don't give up I'm telling you right now don't get this get
through it and so God has allowed you to go off the Rough Side of the Mountain not so he can
hurt you or break you he trying to redesign you I'm telling you right now because I care
about you I'm telling you right now because I've been there I've done that you've been in
it for three years and you're about to quit oh you've been doing it for five years and it don't
look like you think you put all your money in it you put all your time in it people looking
like you crazy five years you've invested oh you put too much in it you quit now oh it
doesn't look like you think you didn't ge
t the grades you thought you were gonna get
so maybe I'm not meant to be a lawyer oh lay hold on you lay hold of it and when that
thing tells you to quit you look at it in his eye and say I ain't going nowhere I will break
you before you break me you will not defeat me you will not destroy me you've been through so
much hell you gonna quit now and when you get to success it's not about skill when you get to
a certain level of success it's about stabbing up you won't break me you can't judge
me I'm far
too long I'm far too hard I'm unbreakable now
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