HEROES – Powerful Motivational Video Speeches Compilation
somebody has to be out there somebody
has to be willing to go through it I was
an insecure scared kid and the only way
I could find myself was to put myself
through the worst thing possible there’s
no one that wishes for peace more than
people that have been to war
somebody has to be one in that sacrifice
the mentality of a warrior is very
different than normal mentality you must
be that person on that door get ready to
open it thinking to yourself if I die so
be because when the war drums sound it’s
my friends that are going to to put
their lives on the line looking at the
guys to my left to my right realizing
that uh we’re here together man
have to be strong together they gotta be
strong for me 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 ones job well done
can you sign up a let down line to be a
seal your mentality changes I may not
live you accept that well the fight is
the will to kill it as the world
yeah without these people who serve
without these people that give it their
all how can we do what we do somebody
got to do the job get out there and live
strive to be better because the life
you’ve got which I just said was a gift
it is a gift so live it thank you for
your service thank you for putting it on
the line
for each day but you go out
to do a job
then maybe others will never understand
never have the ability to do or even be
able to give the time that you give
for every man and woman that serves
you should always be honored and
respected from far near
you do something that is so great and so
special to so many
and sometimes what you do doesn’t be
recognized enough there should never
just be a special day to honor those
that serve every day should be a special
game
for you are a special individual
for you give so much and yet only
received so little this is the time that
you must be recognized for the greatest
sacrifices that you have given you must
be recognized for your losses for your
struggles for the things that you have
to endure that others will never see
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today you will be honored but not just
this day
but every day for the men and women who
serve for the men and women who give it
all for the men and women they put it on
the line and yet not had the trip you
get it deserve to them
many people in this world will never
understand the pain and the sacrifice
that you have given the fight always be
in you
but this is the time in the moment right
now that you must be recognized that you
must understand that you are appreciated
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we should never forget those who have
fallen never forget those who never made
it home never forget those who will
never have the opportunity to sit at the
table and break bread with a loved ones
this is that day to recognize those that
serve keep up the good fight everybody
keep living strong and never forget our
servicemen and women that’s a very scary
situation when you are on one side of
the door and your mind is racing because
on the other side of that door it could
be no one it could be four guys with
four ak-47s that that door are you about
to open commute wrapped so once you open
it boom your legs are gone so there’s a
thousand things you think about when
you’re the first guy the second guy
third guy getting ready going the road
and flooding and that’s what I talked
about the warrior mentality and that’s
why so many people are lost when I start
talking you have
the right you’re lucky that you don’t
have to think like warriors think you’re
very privileged I chose this world to be
a warrior now and I would choose it
again if I came back to this world but
the mentality of a warrior is very
different than normal mentality you must
be that person on that door Oh get ready
to open it thinking to yourself if I die
so being the only way you can go in that
door
there’s no there’s a great chance you’re
gonna die it’s like being a seal you
train with live ammo you jump on an
airplane everything everything you do
you could die so to be a warrior why
people don’t understand me I’m glad you
don’t understand me Merry Christmas good
on you because being a warrior takes a
whole different mindset a whole
different mindset to know that there’s a
great chance I may not beat him like I
was in for 21 years I’m lucky I’m very
lucky that I’m alive able to talk to you
able to still run but when you sign up
on that dotted line to be a city like a
seal your mentality changes I may not
live you got accept that and that’s the
mentality you have and that’s what makes
you a warrior if you’re scared to die
you’re a bad water I’m also looking at
the guys to my left and to my right
realizing that we’re here together man
and I have to have to be strong for them
and they gotta be strong for me a lot of
people either you like me or don’t even
in the SEAL Teams but when you get to
that door or you get on that mission or
you getting up up all that’s just out
the door man you know you you do it
honestly I mean people say all the time
of these movies you you really out there
fighting for that guy beside you and you
can’t be a coward because you know what
this I look at everything I do now in
life this sums it up I hated jumping out
of airplanes I hated shooting guns I
hate it the job as a Navy SEAL but I did
it because I wanted to change myself
everything I do I’m not really
comfortable doing it but if you choose
to go that route to go be a Navy SEAL
you might as well go be the hardest
mother in the world
because if you’re choosing to do
something you have two routes you can go
there and be a little a little weak
person and get through barely and that’s
your reputation or you can go through
the hardest style you can possibly be a
national reputation so my whole thing is
if you’re gonna choose to open up Indore
in Iraq or Afghanistan
open your mother go in hard because
they’re gonna remember you by slowly
opening it and peeking it so if you’re
gonna open it and you made them on to
open it don’t crack it open open the
door go in that’s with life if you
choose to do if you choose to do
something attack it because they’re
gonna remember you is not attacking it
so I want to be remembered you can hate
me but one thing you can’t say about me
I didn’t attack it so that’s them attire
you have if you’re gonna do something
you might as well attack it because you
do it anyway
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this goes out to the firefighters
who goes through a burning building to
help those that can’t help themselves
this goes out to the policeman or the
police woman who serves and protect
those who don’t have the ability to
protect themselves this goes out to all
of those men and women who serve both
far and near on the front lines this
goes out to our military men and women
who give it all this goes out to those
that never made it home this goes out to
the families that will never see their
loved ones again
we must never forget those who put it on
the line
we must never forget those
who are unselfish ain’t being able to
contribute what they contribute each and
every day how can we not recognize them
how do we not recognize what they do
why does it have to just be one
particular day that we honor them it
should never be a one-day thing without
these people who serve without these
people that give it their all how can we
do what we do somebody got to do the job
they made it up in their minds they made
it up in their minds and in their hearts
that this must be done
and they are willing to do what is
necessary to get the job done
think about those kids out there that
may not ever see their parents again
brother if it was the mother or the
father who may have lost their lives in
the line of duty does it matter what you
believe in doesn’t matter how you feel
about certain things somebody has to be
out there somebody has to be willing to
go through it somebody has to be one of
their sacrifice sometimes these people
never come home this is the time
that we must recognize them we must
recognize those families they may never
see their loved ones again 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 they’re 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 that 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 serviceman
can you be a servicewoman can’t you
serve
are you prepared to cern 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 Barnea 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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you feel like your life is gonna last a
long time
and if I was to talk to my 26 year old
self I would tell that kid that you
don’t have time and and you really you
don’t know when it’s gonna end and so
get out there and do the things you want
to do get out there and get after them
now you don’t wait another second take
advantage of it get out there and live
and strive to be better because the life
you’ve got which I just said was a gift
it is a gift so live it
yeah I always want to be a commando ever
since I was a little kid and I heard
that the seals were really tough and
that the training was really tough and
then you know once you get in everyone
makes a big deal out of buds that’s but
it sits in the SEAL Teams it’s no big
deal everyone goes through it you get
cold you get wet
whatever you do a bunch of push-ups and
pull-ups and dips
anyone that gets to the SEAL Teams and
does deployments overseas and has a real
career if they’re not talking about bugs
training
this doesn’t mean
hi the guy that was you know
n-c-double-a water polo team captain
champion equipped and I had a guy that
was an Olympic ultimate gymnast any
quick just because someone’s a good
physical athlete it doesn’t mean that
they’re a good seal because being a good
seal is a lot more than just being a
good athlete being a good athlete is
like the baseline and it’s everything
that you’ve learned to do after that a
good leader or guy that’s tactically
sound the guy that makes good decisions
a guy that’s good under pressure a guy
that doesn’t ever give up on trying to
accomplish submission those are the
things that makes good seal
so you’re always learning and growing
and I was always learning until the day
I retired because it’s not a boom this
happened and everything changes it’s a
constant addition of skillset and
repetition of situations where you
become competent at your job
the fear of getting shot or killed is
not on your mind when you’re in the
moment you know it’ll build up when
you’re waiting to go out you know
there’s times you’re waiting to go out
and do it think yourself okay there’s a
lot of bad things going on out there and
someone would happen to me but I think
at some point you you realize that
there’s nothing you can do about that I
mean other than just quit and and just
resign yourself to a life of cowardice
but if you opt to not do that and you
step up and say okay I’m ready and if I
die I die and once you overcome that
then nothing else to be afraid of
there’s no one that wishes for peace
more than people that have been too warm
because when the war drums sound it’s my
friends that are going to fight that’s
that’s who’s gonna fight it’s my friends
that are going to to put their lives on
the line so when the when the war drums
sound the people that have been to war
are the ones that actually say let’s
think about this first
because like I said before and like
everyone says all the time and they say
it like it’s no big deal about war as
hell when you take a 18 year old kid and
you’re gonna go put him in a situation
where he’s gonna have to kill people and
possibly get wounded or possibly get
killed himself that’s traumatic
experience and so before you do that you
should think about why you’re doing it
and understand if if the people have the
will to fight and the will to fight as
I’ve said many times before the well the
fight is the will to kill that’s the
world to die and those are some pretty
big wills that you need to have
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almost immediately we’re going to
memorial services for army guys Marines
that are killed which you know was a
rude awakening so that’s that’s the
welcome to Ramadi the welcome to Ramadi
is you know you’re gonna go and pay your
respects to some guys that were just
killed and and there’s firefights in the
city so we’re we’re just across the
river from the city
there’s firefights in the city all day
there’s firefights in the city all night
we’re on the rooftop of our building you
sit there and watch tracer fire go back
and forth weird shot at from you know
across the riverbank
there’s yeah it was it was legit it was
legit combat it was a legit bad scenario
with sustained combat operations how do
you lead your men through that when you
know they’re dealing with not only the
funerals which definitely take a
psychological toll but then even that
just constant firefighting over there I
mean do you have to switch up your gear
and think okay I got to leave stronger
or maybe a little easier in certain
scenarios are you changing yes you do
have to modulate your your leadership
and you have to do that if you’re in the
business world you have to do that if
you’re leading any kind of team you’ve
got to modulate and you got to recognize
when your guys need to be pushed and
when your guys need to be not pushed and
given arrest so you’re constantly doing
that regardless of what kind of team
you’re leading and in combat like you
know I say all the time it’s amplified
because if you push your guys too hard
in combat they’re gonna break you know
whereas in business so maybe they make
errors on something or maybe they do
snap I mean it does happen in the
business world where people like can’t
take it anymore
but in combat it’ll happen very quickly
and and so you know you do you’re
constantly modulating and and taking
measure of where your guys are at and
you know sometimes I didn’t do a great
job of that
sometimes I went a little far and said
oh wow I just saw the look on that guy’s
face he needs a rest and I should have
recognized that earlier
and you know you make mistakes
no doubt what I had on my side was I had
experience and I had paid attention to
my elders when I was a kid and when I
was getting trained and there was no war
going on and it was the 90s and I’d hear
a guy you know someone whose name you’ll
never hear but a guy that if you’re in
the SEAL Teams you know who that person
is cuz they were a legit badass Vietnam
war hero you’d hear them say something I
would hear them say something and I
would collect that and I would hang on
to it that’s what prepared me was that
experience of growing up with listening
to my elders the SEAL team doctrine
wasn’t written down anywhere it was all
word of mouth and and passed down from
generation to generation that way and
making sure that you’re not being cocky
making sure that you don’t have the
attitude that you talked about earlier
of you know we’re always gonna be better
than the enemy we’re always gonna win
because you’re not always gonna win and
especially if you think you’re always
gonna win then you’re not going to
prepare that the way you should you’re
not gonna give everything you can to
your training to making sure that you
aren’t prepared for that moment when it
comes and it might come once on a
deployment it might not come on a
deployment and it might come on a daily
basis
the centuries that are trying to hold
down the fort and protect would take
cover from all this all this enemy fire
that was coming at them in would come a
big suicide vehicle-borne IEDs truckful
truck loaded bomb and they would just
drive right into the compound and
detonate themselves and kill dozens of
people and they did that on multiple
occasions they did it times where they
did it to multiple areas at the same
time so that’s how coordinated the enemy
was they were they knew what they were
doing were you impressed by them were
you ever like I didn’t expect that to
happen or did you ever have a respect
for their tactics absolutely always had
respect I respect the enemy absolutely
and the minute you’re not showing
respect to the enemy in their
capabilities is again that’s a lack of
humility and it’s gonna get you killed
you know they you you have to respect
your enemy at all times and whether your
mission is go out and capture kill bad
guys or your mission is to produce
something or sell something or
manufacture something or design
something trying to get that team to be
unified behind the plan and executed
efficiently it doesn’t matter what the
mission is you’re still dealing with
human beings you’re still dealing with
people whether you’re in the SEAL Teams
or whether you’re in the army or the
Marine Corps the people that are working
for you are not robots they’re people
and you cannot give them orders and
expect them to just execute like a robot
would if the military’s like that then
military leadership would be the easiest
thing in the world you know my guys
wouldn’t just do what I told them
because I outrank them and they I kind
of get that funny look I don’t let me
ask you this I’m here cuz your employees
aren’t doing what you want them to do
right
can you just fire them don’t they work
for you aren’t they supposed to follow
you because you’re in charge and you
write their paycheck but all of a sudden
they’re not doing what you tell them to
do why is that it’s the same exact
reason because they’re people and guess
what people want to own their own
destiny they want to be in charge of
what’s happening they want to take
ownership they want to create the plan
that’s how they want to go through life
they want to go through life being
treated like a robot they want to be
treated like a human so don’t talk to me
about what was easy for you because you
had these highly trained highly
disciplined you know terminator robots
that work for you
not true in fact the opposite I had a
bunch of hard-headed you know the guys
that you talked about a bunch of
hard-headed very determined
thick-skulled guys that you know I had
to get them to do what I wanted them to
do had to get them to want to do what I
wanted them to do
I had to make them think that it was
what they wanted to do that’s the goal
that’s what leadership is and the worst
year plan is thought out the less
response you’re gonna get and just like
in business world the less input I get
from you as we create this plan the less
apt you are to execute it correctly so
when it comes time when you have to go
execute something I want you to plan it
I’m not gonna plan it for you I want you
to plan it now I’m gonna come and check
out your plan and we’ll collaborate to
make sure it’s the best plan cuz maybe I
have more experience than you or maybe I
have some strategic vision that you
don’t have but I want you to plan it
that way you own it and if you’ll own it
when you go to execute it you’re gonna
put that much more effort into it that
that’s hard to quantify but that’s real
that is real if you come up with a plan
you’re gonna put more effort and more
pride in executing that plan then if I
come up with a plan and I give it to you
and tell you to execute that’s just a
reality I don’t I don’t care who you are
that’s a reality ordering people to do
things does not work you actually have
to lead them and it’s another buzzword
out there is this is accountability you
know you’ve got to be accountable you
got to be you got to hold your people
accountable and and to me accountability
is a tool it’s a it’s a it’s a tool of
leadership but it’s not the primary tool
of leadership it’s actually a crutch
it’s actually a tool to use when you
don’t pull off leadership correctly so
what you wanna do i you know III talk
about this all the time hadn’t hold my
guys accountable
I didn’t you know walk down the line and
inspect what they were doing and no I
didn’t have to hold them accountable
they wanted to do the right thing they
wanted to do what was aligned with the
mission I had to hold them back
never mind make them do it and that’s
what leadership is it’s not about
accountability it’s about leading and
getting them to lead themselves and
getting them to take ownership of things
that’s what that’s that’s when you know
you’ve succeeded as a leader what you’re
just about out of a job when you’re
sitting back and you don’t have to do
anything because your frontline troops
and your subordinate leadership is
making things happen with almost no
effort from you and the only time you
have to step in is when something’s
going sideways or you see something
getting off-track you got to step back
in there but the ideal is that you can
sit back observe start looking at what
the other strategy is what what to do
next other problems other parts the
world but you can just let your people
do what they want to do because they
want to do it not because you have to
breathe down their shoulder and hold
them accountable not the way to leave
into that same young man that wants to
be a CEO you know the guys that want to
be like Jack oh one day what do you tell
that that 20 year old that sees this
thing and says I want to go do that
well first of all don’t try and be like
me be better
crushing me make me look like a baby
that’s what you that’s what you do and
and don’t don’t talk about it don’t Mull
it over don’t plan for it just get after
it you get after it make it happen
use your force of will to make it happen
as a human being the strongest thing
you’ve got is your force of will
so take that force of will and make that
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