DON’T QUIT – Motivational Workout Speech 2020
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weakness
do I have weakness I am nothing but
weakness
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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 saying
a person strength is often their biggest
weakness
but their weaknesses and become
strengths I don’t accept that I am what
I am and that that is what I am doomed
to be on 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 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 stopped you stop so you’ve
got to ask yourself what’s your why what
motivation what pushes you what size you
every opportunity is the last
opportunity every opportunity I have to
reprove myself again every opportunity
I’m still nervous
until you’ve been doing this for years
why are you so nervous because the day
you become content then you stop
evaluate yourself the day you stop
growing the day you stop getting better
is the day you die is the day the person
who try to catch you get you
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I’m here to tell you today if you got it
somebody carry my office the other day
crying I said look don’t cry to give up
trying 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 that fight
fight against witness against fear
against time and against decay playback
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
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if you won’t be successful in this game
you gotta have a door within you you
gotta know it’s a dogfight and you gotta
go get that fight life ain’t gonna be
easy ain’t about you man you nut just
cuz you got a degree you thinkers you
got a degree in you wrote a book they
bought the bottle out to you that’s just
that one boo in this game
good people can’t really handle them on
the level that someone whose gradient so
you’re praying for greatness and the
problem comes and you’re running Bob you
don’t understand that it isn’t solving
the problem that should 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’ve 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 going wait to get to the
other side and get that reward it’s not
wrong with the opportunity do not give
it 120 you’re giving 70 you’ve given 60
you’ve given 50 and you won’t with these
people who’ve given sweat
who’s giving blood who’s giving tears
you want what they pay for and they 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
stop when you’re feeling to scream that
you’ve had enough when you think you are
going to break emotionally override that
emotion with concrete logic and
willpower that says one
I don’t stop
like the weakness of logic with the
power of the ocean
of those two
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 to stop being
comfortable at the buff it’s your butt
up and get your way you supposed to be
the Bible says he was in the big bed
and he came to himself and he went home
get your butt up
you are royal prince to get where you
belong
do what you supposed to do live like you
supposed to live
you don’t quit now is the tenth round
you got two more to go and when you get
this a test is not about skill when you
get to a certain level
it’s about step it’s about family it’s
about you always lead you take that beat
I’m far too long
I’m far too hard if I was going crazy
you should’ve got me you should have
taught me a long time ago I’m not
breakable now
and you won’t 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 y’all
oh you long enough to get to you don’t
talk to me like that I guarantee I ain’t
no loser I don’t know I don’t know we’re
losing him I was a kid I knew what he
was when I was a kid I was a high school
dropout when I was a kid I hate out of a
bed except in the band and Bill’s eight
on the trash can when I was a kid him
I’ll do whether in my life I’m a grown
man now all I do is win it ain’t no song
no matter what it’s hard for you to see
the light at the end of the tunnel I
promise you and the lights at the end of
the tunnel if you keep walking if you
keep making one good choice or two good
choice good choices will always bring
amazing opportunities I promise you man
things will get better and it won’t be
microwave and won’t be overnight it
won’t be instantaneous I know we work
that but it’s not greatness takes time
when you build with a foundation which
choice is a character you see characters
everything in life your attitudes that
are really determine your altitude when
you learn to have responsibility and
respect and integrity and be punctual
let me share with you but 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 given my
circumstances born in abandoned building
on the floor being adopted being labeled
educable mentally retarded failing twice
as to you know college training never
worked for major corporation to believe
never thought about something he 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
as well
it’s what’s important to 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 stopped and told you
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 just
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
save yourself 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 maid of mine
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