COURAGE – Best Motivational Video Speeches Compilation – Listen Every Day! MORNING MOTIVATION
courage courage is the key to life
itself it takes courage tag part of
being hungry when you’ve been defeated
it takes courage to start over again
if I could do anything for you I would
walk into your life and I would breathe
courage into your life and courage is a
result of confidence you have never seen
a courageous person that didn’t have
confidence human potential is not of any
kind of measurable limit
it can go as far as you design for us as
far as you have the courage to walk
how do you stand up to massive external
pressure tarnish and courage is
something that comes from relationships
you know it’s external there are days
we’re going to doubt ourselves there are
days that storms are gonna rise and we
have to have people who say I got your
back you need to do this we need you the
world needs this keep going
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courage is not the absence of fear para
which is the judgment that what you want
is more important in your fear
it takes courage to achieve your gold
man it takes courage to be successful
patience and inner voice makes you
unbeatable
we’ve lived a life dominated by doubt
and fear how do you step in to bravely
step take the step
no more wood I’ll live like this it
takes courage to fight back if you don’t
have the courage to act the life will
move on you you don’t work for nobody
else
you work for your mama you want to your
sister you work for your odds you want
to your grandma you want to your family
you work for your kid you ain’t making
no other man race
she pleases
that’s broadest
a lot of people who were born in
situation missive I’ve just I’ll never
get out of this so they won’t I say to
people say well I would like to have
done so and so and so so you could have
done it so but I couldn’t get out of
here man the bus runs every day as you
look at your life ask yourself the
question what would your life be like
what would your life look like if you
decided not to care what people thought
of you what would your life be like if
you decided to give up some of your
fears
what would your life be like if you
decided to become courageous over till I
see life if you decided to act on your
dream if you did what you felt in your
heart you know what courageous means a
Tom Ruskin and Randy Reed said they said
that courage comes from a French word
which means of the heart that how does
it feel to you
he says it’s College you know it takes
courage to live just most people go
through life not allowing themselves to
step out because they don’t want to let
go they don’t want to be blown around
they don’t want to be moved the courage
to face life’s whirling wind of
contradictions the courage to love
yourself the courage to love for years I
was afraid to love the courage to take a
chance the courage to be who you are
he says courage isn’t for somebody else
for metals applause immoral debts
courage is what at that moment feels
most right for you not just situational
ethics but what feels right in your
heart the word at the heart what feels
right in your heart
one great philosopher says cowards die
many times before their deaths
the valiant never taste of death but
once what does that mean the value
people aren’t afraid no no no it means
that they experience that fear and they
move forward and move forward any how
many people are dead now many people
allowing their dreams to die many people
applying the idea is to lie dormant and
collect dust
many people have all this talent and
ability that they are lying to be
embarrassed out of them that they will
take with them to their graves because
they didn’t have the courage to be who
they are and I say as you begin to look
toward the future and manifesting your
braveness it’s going to take everything
in you do you have the courage to get
what you want
it takes courage to achieve your goals
man it takes courage to be successful
it’s scary being like everyone else
doing what the masses do and following
the herd that’s easy it’s easy to be
comfortable it’s easy not to try it’s
easy to give up it’s easy to stand on
the sidelines and watch what other
people with courage go out and get all
this for themselves that you want for
yourself it’s easy to look at these
people and make excuses as to why they
can do what you can’t and say things
like yeah that’s because they’ve got
this and that I’d do it if it wasn’t for
this and that all that’s easy and let me
tell you if you don’t want to make waves
or you’re scared what people think
then you better prepare yourself for a
life mediocrity you better dress like
everyone does one can talk like everyone
does because as soon as you start to
stand out they’re gonna try and pull you
back in and it takes courage to push
through that as soon as you start to
change and I’m sure some of you have
tried and tried a lot you’re gonna get
these people that want to keep you where
they are because if you outgrow them
you’re leaving them behind and then
they’ll have to admit to themselves that
it’s possible and that’s the scariest
thing in the world for them to do
because that takes courage that takes
balls of still you need courage to
change your life courage is needed to
face your fears
to step out of your comfort zone and say
that’s it I’m done no more no more will
I take this
nor would I live like this no more when
I let people treat me like this it takes
courage to fight back it takes courage
to get what you want and to start
changing your starts you have to go into
it with the knowledge that it ain’t
gonna be easy it’s gonna be a battle
not just any valve not just some fart on
a playground this is a fight of life and
death and it takes courage to face
tension but you’ve got it inside you I
know it
I believe you can like I believe I can
and I make these videos and do these
tools to try and get it across to people
that ain’t yet got the courage
themselves that they can do anything
they want to do if you just have the
courage you can either be a victim of
your life or the master of it but the
choice that’s yours to make there’s
enemies all through life people that
hurt you people who lie to you people
that cheat on your than people that fear
but there is only one enemy that can
destroy you and that’s the enemy within
this enemy you can’t escape you can only
tame because it lives inside your head
it enjoys trying to destroy you
convincing you that nothing that you’ve
never been nothing that you came from
nothing and you’ll never get out you’re
never gonna change
you’re never going to achieve your
dreams you’re never gonna make the
difference you’re never going to get
the enemy within feed dude it’s poison
on a daily basis if you let it for me I
picture the enemy within in a round cage
in my mind and its circle in this cage
but it never takes his eyes off me it’s
biting me my team for me to step into
that cage with it so it can once again
overpower mark line whose negativity all
this lies all this paranoia all its
stress all its depression all its
anxiety you know what that cage is
called
it’s my comfort zone I found that when
that enemy within is at its strongest
and most powerful is when I’m
comfortable and not striving to get bail
the best way to keep it in check is to
work on yourself daily work on the way
you look at the world around you look at
solutions rather than focus in all the
problems don’t listen to its lies about
what might happen if you try that new
thing and just try it you do this and
you are constantly getting stronger than
that enemy within bigger and stronger so
it’s no match for you you’re
unstoppable but never forget this you
cannot beat the enemy within you can
only tame it you can only make sure you
work on your mind like a muscle in the
gym so you remain bigger and stronger
than it but the enemy within will always
be there circling that cage staring at
you wait silently waiting for you to
slip up so keep it in check work on
yourself daily and never give in every
single day we are all faced with fears
opportunities that appear for our
day-to-day lives and the easy thing to
do is to just walk away these fears can
be anything from applying to a job
telling that person how you feel taking
that first step what I found in life so
far when I think about it is all of
these things normally have one thing in
common
the fear that you might find what if I
apply for that job and I don’t get it
what if I tell that person how I feel
and they don’t feel the same what if I
take that first step
doing whatever it is and I get hurt the
fear of failure is rooted deep in all of
our subconscious ‘iz but most of us
don’t even know exists we go about our
day to day telling ourselves the reason
we aren’t doing the things that we
should be doing is because some bigger
fear some great a reason that actually
doesn’t exist at all if you’re listening
to this now I want you to consciously
know from this day forward that the real
reason you ain’t doing you should be
doing and have the life you deserve it’s
because subconsciously you’re afraid to
fail you’re afraid you won’t get it
you’re afraid they’ll say no you’re
afraid you’ll get hurt you’re afraid
you’ll fight face your fears once you
admit this simple truth and start
getting real and honest with yourself
you start finding it a lot easier to
deal with because let me tell you
something when you admit that it’s
failure you’re afraid of failure
suddenly becomes nothing to be afraid of
all you have the strength inside you to
do anything be anything but all the
while you’re letting fear control you
you won’t do anything face your fears
there’s a quote by Goethe and it says if
you look at a person as they are they
will always remain that way or maybe be
worse but if you look at a person this
is good if you look at a person
as they could be they will grow into
what they should be right we have to
know what we stand for I’m not talking
about what your company stands for I’m
not talking about your family values I’m
talking you as an individual when you
walk into a room what do you represent
as you as an individual when people
around you see you what feeling do they
get how do you leave your energy
impression on the people around you as
individuals we have to do that that’s
the first step that we have to do when
we’re talking about make your mark
everybody repeat after me make my mark
repeat after me in order to make my mark
I have to define my mission statement in
order to make your mark some of you are
going through you’re on the journey of
becoming and you have to look at
adversity with a new perspective right
by show of hands how many of you guys
have experienced fear I need to elbow it
a lot
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so here’s what fear does fear is
restrictive fear stops us from taking
the steps that we need to take to become
the best version of ourselves fear is
the thing that’s literally holding you
back from doing the thing that you’re
supposed to do fear is stopping you from
becoming the leader that you’re supposed
to be now one of the things that I’ve
learned in my past is that leadership is
not a title leadership is an action
leadership is not the title that you
have you can clap for that because let’s
go the leadership is not a title
leadership is an action leadership is
not a noun
leadership is a verb leadership is not
what you look like or where you are
leadership is the way in which you
interact and how you treat the people
around you I’m trying to tell you
something people leadership is each and
every one of you right now are a leader
young professionals unemployed if you
don’t know what’s going on you’re a
leader just by the way in which you
operate I’m being honest many of us are
stuck in stagnating situations because
we believe that we need someone to give
us the car to initiate what we’re
supposed to do someone here is literally
supposed to absolutely put their time in
their effort in something new like
someone here right now is supposed to
focus on their dream and their goals and
their aspirations the question that I
ask myself every time that I speak I
don’t look at this as a keynote I look
at this as an assignment the thing that
I asked myself the thing that I asked
myself is that I don’t operate in my
faith and instead operate in my fear but
I’ll chase my dreams and become the
person that I’m supposed to be who loses
out
I realized that I wasn’t doing this for
me like every time I do something it’s
not just for me there are people who are
watching you right now in your journey
and you’re inspiring them just by the
way in which you move I’ll tell you the
one thing that will build confidence you
need to actually put yourself out there
in this school year is letting go of
what other people think and living your
version of life because too many
students are living a watered-down
version of someone else they’re living a
watered-down version of their friends
how their friends want them to be
they’re living a watered-down version of
what their family pushes them to be or
what society suggests them to be as
opposed to being their own person so go
all in on you whatever that may mean
what excites you what what pushes you
because our biggest problem I believe is
that we compare our behind the scenes to
everyone else’s highlight reel we
compare our failures to everyone else’s
highest points of confidence to everyone
else’s successes we compare our
insecurities to everyone else’s highest
points of confidence that we feel like
we’re not enough so going in on you
whatever that may mean
the one thing that I don’t enjoy about
my job is that I come to a school and
when I was a student in going in to
college I didn’t see myself as someone
who could really make an impact I didn’t
see myself as someone who could really
contribute it was only until I started
putting myself out there sharing my
ideas putting myself in uncomfortable
situations that forced me to grow that I
became a beat that contributed to what
made my school better because I was a
part of it realize that you have the
ability to make an impact you have an
opportunity to change that story in your
head put yourself out there because when
you do amazing things happen this school
needs your leadership they need your
influence they need your impact it is
time to show up we’re all carrying
things in our path
all of us are carrying these stories
that are imposed by other people by
friends by family by society by
Instagram and what happens is when we
are faced with a challenging situation
we approach it with all of that stuff
some of you believe the stories that
you’ve made up in your own head
the story of I’m not good enough the
story of I’m not academically inclined
the story of I’m not a morning person
the story of I can’t really make new
friends the story of I can’t really have
an impact on the people around me and
now listen I want to be abundantly clear
I’m not the guy that gonna come in here
and tell you what stories to tell
yourself but I want you to get back to
the place where you can start telling
yourself better stories stories that you
are enough that you are charismatic
enough that you’re courageous enough
that you aren’t like them and that’s
okay because you are like you I believe
when we stop believing the stories that
we tell ourselves in our own heads and
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start telling ourselves news stories
stories that are actually aligned with
who we are and who we would like to
become that is when we were able to
change ourselves and change the people
around us
but I want you to raise the question
within yourself of defining the snake in
your life that thing that keeps on
coming up that it is time to face
because here’s what I know every single
person in this room student and faculty
has something that comes up that tries
to get in their way make them want to
quit and turn around and walk away and
what I know to be true is defining that
thing for you is the only way to be able
to overcome it we talk a lot about
leadership going into a new school how
do you show up as a leader in this
school in the community around it true
leadership is leaning into the things
you are afraid of true leadership has
consistently choosing courage instead of
fear true leadership having the courage
the audacity to take on challenges
things that don’t make you feel good
while inspiring other people to do the
same it takes courage to make a new
friend it takes courage to stand up for
that person that you see on campuses
isn’t being done right it takes courage
to wake up a little earlier instead of
late to join that student group to put
yourself out there more than you thought
that you could it takes courage to live
a great life
so make the decision today of what
courageous act are you going to make for
yourself and the people at the school it
starts by taking on the things that you
can actually affect that you can control
and that you can impact because I see
way too many students coming into
college and university that allow
themselves to be defined by what
happened yesterday they allow themselves
to be defined by what happened last week
some of you in this room think because
of one failed test that you are a
failure when the reality is those are
moments not characteristics and my
personal belief is that we need to start
seeing those moments for what they are
moments
oh yes it’s true many people put it on
the line
many people get out there everyday and
do something that has never been done
before many people out there put it on
the line and do something special to
help someone else why can’t we recognize
them no matter where you go no matter
where you may be someone is out there
right now that is doing something far
greater and then putting so much work in
to make a difference in this world why
can’t we honor them why can’t we honor
those servicemen and women
you have to consider the fact there are
great doctors there are great lawyers
there are great teachers there are great
mothers and fathers
there are great people in this world
we all are responsible
we all have a duty
we all have to serve
whether you wear a uniform or not you
have to serve
can’t you be a service me
can you be a servicewoman can’t you
serve
are you prepared to serve do you have
the ability to serve don’t make it about
yourself you have a duty
you have a responsibility they get give
up why should you
keep moving
keep believing we are always
both pioneer we must serve
so this day
we honor the servicemen and women who
put it on the line who’ve given their
all and if they make it home and they
have the ability to put their arms
around their loved one
job well done and there will be a new
day and that day starts a new
opportunity a new opportunity to make
something else special happy
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let’s see Stewie can justify anything
and the worst part about it
they can believe this excuse don’t look
at me like that some of you guys have
been defeated Iranian life you say to
yourself you know what I got a GED
nobody wants me I said be an alcoholic
nobody wants me
my own father’s you tell me I was no
good nobody wants me I’ll just work this
little dead-end job little figure out
what’s next cuz I don’t have anywhere to
go
some of you guys can relate to what I’m
saying somehow some way you’ve
disqualified yourself I work with so
many people not gonna relate to it
nobody can beat you but you nobody can
stop you with you
but the worst thing you can do
will disqualify yourself now fifty years
old I got a wife I got kids I got
mortgages I got bills school is over
that’s all about the real deal right now
you guys want to is there any excuse for
an adult not to get an A not alive so
when you go to work is there any excuse
for you not to be in the a man is there
an excuse me your store not to be in a
store
is there an excuse for you to go home
and not to be a husband
is there any excuse for you not to be an
a wife or a mom or dad it’s an excuse
because we’re not a middle school is low
we’re not in high school so a report
card day I came home and I was sit down
with my mom and dad and I would make
excuses about my seat well mine you know
I don’t like to teach him I’ll going to
teach him that like me that’s why she
gave me a seat you know my mom would say
that teacher then give you nothing you
earn this nobody can stop you with you
you know how to go to play minion
and I got there you guys know I had a
goal of doubling my NBA income
and I got there if you set a goal and
you make the intention that you want to
get there do you know that you writing
it down and looking at it every single
day you’re seven times more likely to
achieve that goal
this is America ladies and gentlemen
it can happen to you it can happen for
you but you got to write these go their
own plan upon tablets so they can be
seen by man and that man and that woman
is you my father set right to goes down
son and I wrote him down I said dad I’m
a plain NBA and I’m a what’s your
problem son your value system screwed up
you’re smart
this family’s about being a
student-athlete we write your goes
tomorrow and give or take
he didn’t yell at me it in robbery
you didn’t criticize me he said son
that’s your problem
your value system is screwed up redoing
and give them to me tomorrow you know
someone you guys can have more in life
with your value system school
you’re more excited about Facebook and
Instagram so many guys is gone you’re
not gonna work why did that golf car my
father taught me something very right
but you know what you will do well and
what you dwell on you will dwell in but
you dwell on if you dwell on marijuana
you will dwell in marijuana and you will
get them
we smokers reward I thought about it the
other day I’m from Chicago I’ve never
been to a third retirement party have
you
I’ve never been to a double environment
party I guess I have to call fuels what
you do well in you dwell on so can I
give you a little bit of advice
make sure your value system is good make
sure your value system makes sense did
we say all the time well what’s the most
important to you God family work and I
know what you’re gonna write down it’s
gonna be really your heart does that
make sense what was in my heart with
sports and that’s no lie
my father said we do you value sisters I
read it the next day I said dad you
ready okay bad
I’m a graduated college in four years
I’m gonna play in the NBA
he later wiped up
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but they hit nice back here summer
playing in da that’s what I said I’m
gonna make more money in business and I
didn’t know my father saying I like it
I like I want to take those girls out
and look at him every before I knew it
that 2.1
turned into a two-point line
before I knew it I got selected to be
president of the during business love
Kappa the homecoming committee before I
knew that begin people begin and
recognize me not as an athlete but as a
leader in school all of a sudden I
wanted the truth I know I look at the
truth I know I’m gonna get a preprint
o’haven like Walters mathematically
impossible you know what I’m talking
about
so I got as high as I hear 2.9
I realize know what
I could have
if I would have taken advantage I’ve
been a little bit more Mutulu my ass
something you gotta need to hear what
I’m saying to be right now
some of you guys used to be a Mattu on
your past night can I get a witness now
you meant a little school anymore you’re
not in high school childhood is over
would you agree and grow them in and
grown women think a certain way operate
a certain way and have a certain mindset
mentality I want you to understand you
are a part of a legacy you’ve heard
about your love for it you heard about
your dad story now it’s time for you to
build your story my father was a
sharecropper in Tennessee I heard all
the stories my dad would tell me being a
young black boy in Tennessee he says son
I got called the n-word so many times I
began to think it was my first name but
I busted my butt for you so I busted my
butt
I went back to college for you son I got
educated for you sir everything I do is
for you son see right now I want you to
understand you are a part of the legacy
give you guys your mom made sacrifices
for you your dad made sacrifices for you
now it’s time for you to grab the bull
by the horns and impact your legacies
everybody with me your mom and dad have
this store your grandfather your
grandmother has here’s our first story
now you are building your story I was at
a track meet one day now watching the
4×1 relay
and I love a 4 by1 relay because that
first printer takes off with the baton
in their hand and they run as hard as I
can as fast as I can and when they get
to the next athlete maybe I’ll stick and
then next athlete takes off running but
they reach back they just reach back a
little bit
lynnie run as long as they can as fast
as I can 400 meters and they have it and
it’s so important to make the successful
end off because if you don’t make a
successful handoff you are disqualified
and the next athletes turn is to run as
hard as you can as fast you can
and then they yes take me Hannah tonight
the anchors car Lewis that egg responds
Oh the Penguins you say and that
last would be meter Wow they come around
the curve and all you he’s elbows form
and bakes up down the process finish
words so that is tracking and I saw them
Hammond was baton
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stick stick stick stick your father
might be from Russia
your grandfather might be from Cuba
Colombia I don’t know where they from
but let me tell you something at some
point they’re gonna yell stick and
appetize in your hand so we don’t have
time to be silly I mean what would you
agree we don’t have time to play games
anymore would you agree you got to get
that Pathan in your hand you got to run
as hard as you can as fast as you can
and everyday in their car in the morning
my dad will just talk to you like
something awful Tennessee sir education
is very viable you cannot
the value education William education is
important son that’s the way out
education working on education hitting
train smart families a training and
development organizations masquerading
as a family
mom dad you were head trains of a family
you know my dad would say go get it go
get it go get it go get it be sweet be
sweet baby go get it go get it be sweet
be sweet baby every time I left the
house my mom would say be sweet baby
please sweet my dad would say go get it
son go get it go get it go get it go get
it be sweet
go get it be sweet go get it – please my
family too
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be sweetly I said go in the class and
said if I get to see them
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everyone went for the a you know but the
average person thinks the same is that
way they could do more they could be
more if they believed more
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