YOU HAVE TO RISE AGAIN - Motivational Speech (Featuring James E. Dixon)

all of us have fallen but you have a choice to rise and when you rise you can also arrive at a better place than you've ever been with a better mindset than you've ever held you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies you may trod me in the dirt but still like dust i'll rise [Music] just like the moon and like suns with the certainty of tires just like the whole springing high still all rise did you want to see me broken bowed head and lord i was shoulders falling down like tear drops weakened by my soul for crying does my heartiness offend you don't you take it awful hard cause i laugh like i've got gold mines digging in my own backyard you may shoot me with your words you may cut me with your eyes you may kill me with your hatefulness but still like air i'll rise out of the huts of history shame i rise up from the past that's rooted in vain i rise i am a black ocean leaping in wide welling and swelling i bear in the tribe leaving behind nice and tear and fear i rise you know how many stories of potential it is in the world how many storms are potential of cats that have the jews and then you see them five ten years later and they blaming the institution and they blaming the coach because they didn't have the heart integrity and character to show up every single day and do what they said they were gonna do stories of potential stories of cat telling them how great they were destined to be i say [ __ ] it's not gender specific it's a mindset it means weak soft feel sorry for yourself get your ass up place them up stay hard into the daybreak that's wonderfully clear i rise bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave i am the dream and the hope of the slave i rise i rise i rise that the reason discipline is hard to maintain is because it is hard to maintain that's what makes discipline hard it's hard holding the line maintaining the standard giving no slack none that's the discipline that's the discipline and it is hard and if there's one thing i would say that does make it easier it's to envision what it feels like when you're done what it feels like after you've worked out or you've held the line on your food intake or you've pushed through some monotonous project that you have to do and all those things when they're done they feel good [Music] ladies and gentlemen fear kills dreams fear kills hope fear put people in the hospital fear can aid you fear ladies and gentlemen can hold you back from doing something that you know within yourself that you're capable of doing but it will paralyze you [Music] and it seems like you're in a hypnotic spell and i ask you a question what is the benefit what's the benefit of allowing fear to hold you back what's the benefit of giving up on yourself of not stepping out on life and taking life on what is the benefit for you what's the plus in that [Applause] vision what you will feel like later when you let the discipline slack you know the feeling feeling weak and defeated and you know that you're falling behind so get to know those two different types of feelings and ask yourself which one you want to feel it so i didn't want to make any mistakes i wanted everybody to like me i wanted to be perfect the first time i did something it's not going to happen you're going to make some mistakes you're going to hurt some folks feelings you're going to create some enemies whenever you decide that you want to begin to take life on there's things in our life that are controlling how we feel about ourselves and depending how those things go that's how we feel about ourself and there's no way inner peace can be experienced when we tie our worth to these things the greatest war you ever will face in your life the greatest war you ever will face in your life is right here your mind is a battlefield [Music] every one of us can rise no matter what your background or origin has been you are not the result of somebody's mistake or sin you are someone because god made you to be phenomenal and you will rise whatever it is you've gone through it is a training ground to give you the experience and the backbone that's necessary so that you can stand firm and stand strong against whatever comes up against you the storms of life will come but that storm must also have an eye and in the eye of that storm is i it's you to stand there and say that the storm around me may swirl and the winds may rise but i rise with it i will survive it because there's something great in me that's got to come out i will rise i will rise out of the shorty of defeat i can rise and wear because i am a child of the great i am the enemy wants to plant thoughts in your head that your life is over wants to put thoughts in your head that god doesn't love you wants to put thoughts in your head that you're not good enough wants to put thoughts in your head that you're not worth it because the greatest war it's an internal war [Music] so so [Music] you