RISK OR REGRET. - The Most Powerful Motivational Speeches Video Compilation In 2025 (so far)

Nothing great is going to come without you having to deal with what I call adversity and pain tolerance. Real self-worth comes from doing hard things. You must be able to deal with that. And the more understanding you have of what's causing you the pain and how you've dealt with it is going to determine how successful you will be in whatever you choose in life. That your mind is designed to help you get what you want. You just have to be willing to believe it's possible. The reality is is that most people never do what they really want to do in life because they are afraid of what other people are going to say. You take what they say and you use it. Losing is not an option with me. Not being successful is not an option. When you make not being successful, it it's not an option for you. That's when your life is going to change. Where you are now is just a reflection of your past thoughts, your past thinking. So if you want to change your future, you got to change your thoughts now. See, adversity is like the gem for your soul. It hurts. It's heavy, but it builds you up. Every time you wanted to quit, every time life tried to break you, you chose to stand tall. That's what makes you [Music] great. It's about the grind, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whispered when nobody was watching. It's all about those moments when you could have folded but you didn't. You see, the underdog story is the realest story there is. I can probably guarantee 99.9% of the times you're going to you're going to say, "Oh yeah, wish I started doing that sooner right here." And you're never going to regret something you really went after cuz at least you went after it. You know, if you never try, that's the things that people look back on and they say, "Oh man, nothing I can do now, right? The time is absolutely gone. There's no turning back." talking about self love. We keep talking about loving yourself, believing in yourself. That happens naturally when you go through something difficult. The point is we've all done hard things and self-worth and self value comes from recognizing the hardship you've been through and the growth that you made during that time. Champions aren't found on the podium with their hand up. Well, champions are found in lab studies. The thousands of hours of hard work when no one's watching. That's what makes the will unstoppable. When you're in here and no one else is and you're pushing yourself harder than anybody with no one around. That right there, guys, is a spark that catches flames, burns every fear down, guys. Some fear people use and and it enables them. Fear does, you know, it's a block to them. They're scared from it. They run from it. Fear, you know, shuts them down. For others, fear is a motivation. I feel fear now and I tackle it so I never have to fear feel it again. Here's the thing. Once something's important to you, it never leaves your mind. If you always dreamt about being a singer songwriter and you never did it, you will be haunted by that at the age of 70 because it's still right here stored in the back of your mind. It's something that's meant for you that's trying to call to you. You see your dreams, you either pursue them or theying haunt you. If I was around you for 24 hours, what would your actions say? Would it really say you're serious about growing what you're growing? I wouldn't say you're just interested in it. Success doesn't always depend on world class talent. It's a small piece of it. You can learn how to be talented. I promise you. But it does depend on world class consistency. You need to recognize that driven people always feel behind. They're always going to have doubt. They're always going to have chips on their shoulder. That's what makes using great at what we do. It's not the affirmations. It's theing dark. It's the people that told us we were losers. It's the people that told us we were pieces of and anybody who tells you different, they haven't achieved anything. Look at what they've achieved. It's probably a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Real mother remember all the dark [ __ ] They take the dark and they put it into productive action to build the life that they want. Try, bro. Try. Why don't you try? Go harder, bro. work. Work. There's not even really no pressure on a dream. It's a dream. There's pressure to feed feed your kids. There's pressure to pay rent. There's pressure to make sure that you don't get fired from your job. But a dream though, all all a dream is is is fake reality that you can make a real reality. That's all a dream is. So work it. Cuz when you come from nothing, you appreciate everything. You hustle different, you love different, and you lead different. So today, I want you to do three things. Stay humble, never forget where you came from, stay hungry, keep that fire in your soul, and stay true. Always be real with yourself and the world because the world don't need no more copies. It need originals. And trust me, ain't nobody else who can do what you do like you do. You didn't fight through all of that just to stay silent. Someone out there needs what you've lived. The lessons you've bled for. The wisdom you've earned the hard way. You're not too broken. You're proof that it's possible. Perfection isn't what reaches people. Honesty does. Someone is waiting. Not for the polished version of you, but for the real one. Say it. Show it. Let them know that they're not alone. You didn't come this far just to keep it to yourself. People who don't have a sense of purpose, a mission, and don't have a consistent routine end up digging holes in their life. Gambling, overdrinking, too much television, things that slowly chip away at humanity. things that you people use to escape and you're like, "Whoa, where did this come from?" It was the absence of purpose and it was absence of routine. We need it otherwise humans dig their the holes in their lives, too. No different than a German Shepherd would. The most important thing, it's the consistence. If you have consistency, you're going to be good in the future or you're going to be better than other ones in the future. I think it's part of the life. It's like that. who told you the opposites they are not part of this world in my opinion if you want to achieve successful it's the only way so you're never going to be you're never going to be in high level so many years if you are not consistent more than other ones if you don't do it at something more than other ones you're never going to be number one like me I just beat me this ain't about nobody else I don't give about nobody else I just beat me if I can keep doing that then that means that I'm in a battle with the only person that makes sense. I'm in a battle with the only person that I really want to be and that's me. I don't I don't care about anybody else. I have no worry or gripe about the next man or woman's journey. If I can continue to outdo me from the day before, then I'm then I'm ahead. Wake up, bro. It's halftime. That contract you signed at the beginning of the year is waiting to be completed. And here you are about to start the third quarter. You just dropped a stinker in the first half. These the championship rounds, bro. This is where all that counts. And either you going to show up and get that ring, get that trophy, get that dream that you've always wanted, or somebody else that signed that same contract is going to get it before you. You okay with letting that happen? You okay with falling short again? Cuz I ain't. You told yourself this year was different. Stop talking, bro. Start doing. Halftime's over. It's your turn to win. Look inside. You'll find something to grapple with. You have so much time to live. It's your time. So your goal in life is to realize that that is your treasure. So let's say you're working at that job and you have that horrible boss and you're miserable. You could turn that around and make those 8 hours a lifetime. You tell yourself maybe I can see that there are things that I can learn even from the worst possible job. So that's how you create a lifetime by saying it's mine. I'm going to create something worthwhile out of it. I'm not going to give it away to others. This is my time. I'm going to own it. What I'm saying is don't settle. Don't live lives of complacency because there is so much out there for us. We all have the right to live incredibly fulfilled, incredibly passionate, incredibly joyful lives where you are psyched it's Monday morning, where you are psyched that you're in quarantine with your family, where you are psyched that you get to do what you do every single day. And if something doesn't line up that way, don't put it off. This is your life. No one is going to come and change it for you. Why couldn't we just be happy being who and what we are? Why is it that we're punished if we don't strive? Couldn't we just be rewarded for who we are? I can understand that, but I don't think that it works. I don't think things function like that. And I don't think probably in the final analysis we really want them to. I don't know if anyone enjoys undeserved reward. It feels creepy, doesn't it, to be rewarded for something you didn't do? anyone else. The positive emotion that we find sustaining is experienced in relationship to an unachieved goal. Oh, if you want to begin to grow, you've got to put something out here that you can't reach easily, that has got to make you stretch, got to make you jump for it, got to make you get back a little bit and dig in so that you can take a leap for it. And maybe you jump up there and you miss it and you extend your knees and you come back again and you bust your lip next time. But you keep on and through that process, you learn how to leap higher. You start challenging yourself to dig deeper. And then you discover some things about you that you don't know right now. Some talents that you have in you that you didn't know that you can do. Right? Most cats are somebody that works hard. If the situation or the circumstance is what they want it to be, they going to come out and they going to act accordingly and they going to give you everything they got. but a hard worker. Regardless of situation, regardless of circumstance, regardless of what happened, I'm going to show up and I'm going to give everything I got to it because I'm looking for something that's totally different. Like the question becomes this. Can you be committed to the process of what you're doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what you're doing? Nothing's ever going to be given to you. Everything's going to be earned. If you don't go out there and put in the work, you don't go out and put in the effort. One, you're not going to get the results. But two, more importantly, you don't deserve it. You didn't earn it. Do you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be? Right? Like courage. Do you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be? And so, anytime you got to be courageous, let's look at it from the standpoint of dreams, goals, and aspirations. You got your dream, your goal, and your aspiration. And then you got reality. And often times reality doesn't reflect the goal, the dream, and the aspiration. And so when you think courage, like being courageous and following your heart because it somehow knows what you want to do anyway, like it's almost like instinct, right? It's almost like when you feel something that you should do and for some strange reason, like your mind or your spirit tells you, "No, I don't want to do it." because it takes you outside of your comfort zone and it puts you in a space and place that may be unknown or it puts you in a space and place of uncharted territory but you know you should do it. You can feel it, right? And then you go against it and all it does is make the route a lot longer. That's all it [Music] does. Making promises to yourself that you don't keep. It's saying I'm going to do this and not doing it. Because then what happens after that is the selft talk. The selft talk that you create by not upholding the obligations that you make to yourself is ultimately the most destructive thing that you could ever do to yourself. I'm going to start on Monday. I'm going to start on Monday. I'm going to start on Monday. I'm going to start on Monday. I'm going to start on Monday. I'm going to start I'm going to start after the wedding. I'm going to start after the after this trip. After summer after this next holiday after after the holidays I'm going to start. Sound familiar? Yeah. That's why you feel like because you know that you didn't do none of that [ __ ] You told yourself you should have done it. I wasn't that guy. I failed everything I did the first time. I was coming back even harder after I failed. Success in a straight line is a maze. And when you think you figure that maze out, you hit a wall and you got to [ __ ] around. Start again. Stay hard. Take ownership for your life. Nobody can live your dream for you but you. Nobody's going to take care of your business like you. Stop coming up with excuses. Don't give yourself permission to continue to live a small life. You can't fit a big dream into a small life. Give yourself permission to go for it, to test yourself, to challenge yourself. Live full. Everybody talking about how great they want to be until adversity and opposition hits. You judge the true character and caliber of a person by where they stand in times of challenge and opposition. Things that are robust, that are strong, that are tough, that can take just a lot of abuse before they break, they are still ultimately defined by their breaking point. Something that is antifragile on the other hand is something that the more you attack it, the more it is pounded on, the stronger it gets, will tied to something that is truly antifragile. That the more somebody comes after it, the more robust it becomes. Being a learner is that answer. Because when it got hard or when it rained or when you got hungry, whatever your boys wanted to go out to the club or whatever it was, you did it and you didn't stick through. That's it. Our life success comes down to little bitty tiny decisions that we make consistently over and over and over again. And if you're making consistent decisions that break your momentum over and over and over again, you're not [ __ ] having it. If you can just keep believing when nothing in you is working, when all your external forces have given way, if you can just manage to somehow keep hoping, just hope, you ain't really got to believe. All you got to do is hope. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. You just got to hope. Sometimes you ain't strong enough to believe, but you can always be strong enough to just hope. Man, I hope God come get me. I hope I make it. So, I just want to tell you, man, that don't let those thoughts that are trying to kill you kill you. or those thoughts that tell you you're not enough. Those thoughts that tell you things won't get better. Those thoughts that tell you that you are your mistakes. Those thoughts that tell you that you are your past. Those thoughts that tell you that you're worthless. Don't let those thoughts kill you. They're lying to you. Because you're more than that. You're more than a conqueror. You're more than what you're going through. You do have purpose. You are awesome. You are talented. You are beautiful. You are special despite what you've been going through. Most of us have been conditioned not to take a risk. People ask me all the time, what does it take to be happy? And I always tell them, it's really simple. One word, progress. Progress equals happiness. If you keep growing, you're going to feel alive. And if you keep growing, you're going to have more to give. And when you're growing and giving is when life is magnificent. You can't be successful if you say one thing and you do another thing. So, I'm here to tell y'all for real, success number one starts with you. Like, for real. Real success is you say one thing and if you do what you say 70% of the time, you going to be average. If you do what you say you're going to do 80% of the time, you're going to be real good. And if you do what you say you going to do, 90% of the time, you're going to be great. Because very few people do what they say they're going to do. It sound good coming off your lips. When I finally discovered it's all [Music] risky. The minute you were born, it got risky. If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying. As you go through the challenges of life and you look at it and embrace whatever comes to you. Don't run from it. Step toward it. Don't try and duck it like most people do. See, most people want it easy. team. Easy come, easy what? Easy go. But if you can remain hopeful in spite of all adversity, if you can just go to bed and just wake up tomorrow, every time you wake up, that's a sign from God that he ain't through with you yet. [Music] I don't know what your future is, but if you're willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, then you will not regret it. Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your [Music] purpose. And don't let your mind control you. Control your mind and then you can set it free. It's not helpful to you to to to be envious. If you know what you want, then you know when you're failing. If you don't allow yourself to know what you want, you can keep that foggy. If you don't set out the conditions for your success, then you can avoid your responsibility because again, that's not clear. And the problem with wanting something is that in all probability, you're going to have to work for it. You're going to have to make sacrifices. And it's certainly possible that you want to avoid that. Failing to make any of that clear protects you right now, but it's really hard on you over the medium to long term. How can I wake up early in the morning? Wake up early. How can I out consistently every day? Work out consistently every day. You have control over your mind. You just have to assert it. You have to decide that you are going to be in control. That you are going to do what you want to do. Laziness doesn't get a vote. Sadness doesn't get a vote. You go at what you're going to deal with and you deal with the difficult difficulties of it. When you handle those hard things close at hand, making those hard decisions right now that you don't want to make, learning those things that you don't like to do, but you know that in order for you to get where you want to go, this is one of the hoops that you have to flip through. Like you know exactly exactly what you want. You know exactly when you want it. Listen to me. You know exactly what it tastes like. You know what it look like. You know what it smells like. Like before you really blow up blow up and you get success. Like you literally have it in the palm of your hand without having it. No, I'm not. I'm serious, guys. You got to know what it looks [Music] like. Don't ask for security. Ask for adventure. If you fight with faith, you fight with prayer, eventually you'll realize everything that you went through had a purpose. You have to learn what do you want in your life. And it's okay to sit in a room by yourself in a chair and just think about you. If you can see it here and you have the courage enough to speak it, it will happen. A lot of times people believe in certain things but they keep to themselves. They don't put it out there. You truly believe in it. If you become vocal with it, you are creating that law of attraction and it will become reality. Because your dreams have to be bigger than all your fears and all your consequences. What makes people go back is you dream too small. See, your problem in life ain't if you aim too high and you miss it. Your problem in life is if you l aim too low and you hit it. That's you messed up now. So when you aim to the moon and you miss, you still amongst the [Music] stars. You ask the what do you want, man? I want to be down there. Tell me something I don't know. Everybody wants it. But the reality of it is everybody don't get it. And the crazy thing is if you want it, you can get it. It's not like somebody is stopping you and holding a gun to your head and telling you you can't get it. It's a matter of will. It's a matter of hard work. It's a matter of sacrifice. It's a matter of dedication. It's a matter of commitment. And I'm not talking about the commitment that says, "Yes, I'll show up." Not that commitment. I'm talking about the commitment I'm going stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I said it in has left. [Music] Look guys, this pursuing success, becoming someone who is abnormal, becoming someone who sets the standard for others, becoming someone who shows the rest of the world what is possible is a very difficult path. You are going to have people shoot you. You are going to have unexpected circumstances arise. You are going to have all these things that you nevering counted on come and smack you in the face over and over and over again. This is just part of being on that [Music] path. Like what's the GPS that's on the end of our decisions and our choices? Like where is it really taking us? Because at the end of the day in life, it's only two things that matter. And it's not about the biggest car. It's not about the biggest house. It's not about the bank account. It's only two things that matter. It's about who we become in life. It's about what we give back to life. Please don't be the people in this world that become a public success, but they're private failures. [Music] God has an incredible life for you. All you got to do is ask him for it. Be willing to put in the work. But now this work part is hard. Success is hard. But let me ask you a question. Ain't not being successful hard too. So now which hard you want? You want the hard with some options and some benefits. Or you want the hard with ain't nothing going on. That's true of your goals and dreams as well. There's an inevitability to success. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. When we adopt one more, when we adopt compound pounding, do you know the kind of confidence you begin to have when you just accept in your life that I am going to be relentless? I'm always going to do extra. And you accept the fact that all things break down over time. All the barriers will go away. All the obstacles will go away. Everything in your way will go away if you keep after it over an extended period of time. Most people overestimate what they can do in a year. They do. They set up goals for a year and they overestimate where they're going to get to and they dramatically underestimate what they can do in a decade. You have the power within you as you begin to develop your consciousness. As you hold the vision of what it is that you want to do, as you decide to answer this small voice within you, because as you respond to this voice that's telling you you ought to do this, the way will come. Ideas will come to you. You will begin to attract things you need and things that you don't even know that you need right now. You will develop the skills in the process. [Music] Every single one of you who is struggling right now, you need to understand this. What you're going through right now, it's necessary because what's happening right now is you are forging theing skills. You are forging the determination. You are forging the grit. You are forging the fortitude. You are forging all theing things that nobody else is gaining because they're sitting on their hands and you're willing to push through. Efficient but not effective. I did things right, but I never did the right thing. Efficient, not effective. Hollow. Jelly bean. Hard on the outside, soft on the inside, don't possess nothing. Most people go through life as volunteer victims. They go through life volunteering to be victims, giving excuses on why they're not pursuing their greatness, giving excuses on why they're not doing the things that they want to do, putting it off again and again and again, wasting valuable time. Life is very valuable, ladies and gentlemen. Time is very high and it's very fragile. You got to decide to do what you can right now and don't delay. Live your living your life like a sense of urgency. Everything I've ever been a part of, everything I've ever been connected to, and everything I've aspiring to do, everything I've ever wanted to accomplish, at a certain point, I understood my perspective about it had to be right. Because my perspective will always affect my performance. How I view what I do will always affect how I do what I do. When you're complaining, you know what you're doing? You're focusing on everything that's wrong in your life. What you focus on you move towards and also what you focus on you attract. When you're complaining, you know what you're doing? You're focusing all the in your life. You're complaining. You can take control of your life and be person that's not a creature. So he's a creator because sure life is tough but it gets a lot easier when you're laughing at it. So despite the suffering in fact to spite the suffering to spite the hardship to spite the challenges laugh at them all. They can't stand it when you do. And they all get easier. Yes. Laugh at them all. Laughter wins. [Applause] [Music] Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Your imagination is the evidence of things not seen. You know why they say it's not seen? Because your imagination, you are the only one who can see it. So, you know what that means? All that stuff you've ever imagined is just been God showing you a preview of a coming attraction he has for you. The problem with your imagination is you tell it to the wrong people. The people that are going to change their lives, the people that are going to recover their health, the people that are going to build their lives and start all over again from scratch are people who believe it's possible. The people who fail are the people who suffer from possibility blindness. They say the people that are successful in any area of life, you must be willing to do the things today others won't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have. I said dominate. So, if you think you're going to dominate in your industry, dominate in this world, and be one of the best of the best at what you do, when I say dominate, I need you to make some noise because I'm talking about you. So, everything that you do is habit forming. And that includes hitting the snooze button. That includes sitting on the couch. That includes eating donuts. It's all habit forming. You know what else is habit forming? Discipline. Setting the alarm and getting up, going and working out. That stuff is all habit forming, too. I recommend you form some discipline habits. So, of course you feel lost. Of course you feel confused. Of course, you feel frustrated because you haven't been developing any of the skills that are necessary for you to live a true life that you're proud of. How about this? How about you work on developing your discipline this year? And so, I want whatever dream you have, I want you to expand it. I want you to increase it. And I want to warn you, don't ask yourself how you're going to do it. How is none of your business. Ger says that which does not kill you will make you stronger. The greatest gift that you can give yourself is to find something that you're naturally adept at and figure out a way to make a living at it. Because if you do that, every day will be a play day. You're never battling upstream. You love what you do. And if you love what you do, if I if you love what you do, why do you want to stop doing it? and then go out and try to find something that you like better. It's all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. You will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. And in every family, there's a Neo. There's a the one that eventually shows up in a family and changes the whole family forever. They rise up and they change it all. Training, Britney, Daddy, those cats are on the side of the treadmill. Can't let conditions dictate your outcome. That train conditions they give you cuz it's too nasty. Don't do the same. Stay home. If you can believe it, you can achieve it. If you can believe it, you can achieve it. This is something that you hear a lot of and I get it. But guess what? Belief by itself doesn't get you anything. You got to impose your will. You got to be disciplined. And you got to make things happen. And don't worry about failing. You're going to fail. You're going to make some mistakes. You're going to look stupid. Wise call life. Make it okay to fail. See, I found that as the saying goes, most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss. Most people fail in life because they aim too low and hit. You have to be willing to grin it up. You have to be willing to push through discomfort. Nothing that you're about to try or do or achieve that is worthwhile is going to be comfortable for you during the process of creating it. So stop with thising hope. Stop with this I wish when it comes to your own life and start replacing those terms with I willing do no matter what. Life is a fight for territory. And once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over. You got to outthink and outwork the competition. You can have, you can be, and you can do whatever you want to do. But you cannot do it if you're not willing to make the sacrifice. And for those of you who are willing to make the sacrifice, I'm willing to make the sacrifice that life is short and every second is precious. So, put your freaking head down and keep getting after it. The reason most people fail is because they give up what they want most for what they want now. I don't know who needed to hear this, but I got to tell you, you must be some kind of amazing if you think about all the things that have come up against you, and you're still here. All the things that tried to stop you from getting to where you are now to stop you from trying to have confidence and self-esteem, and yet you made it. Question: Who are you? Or at least who could you be? Answer: Part of the eternal force that constantly confronts the terrible unknown voluntarily. And part of the eternal force that faces chaos and turns it into productive order. And all of this being very difficult to understand consciously, but vital to our survival is transmitted in the form of the stories that we cannot help but attend to. And it is in this manner that we come to apprehend what is of value, what we should aim at, and what we could be. When you're stretching out, when you're taking life by the collar, you're going to 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 will discover some things about yourself that will begin to electrify your personality. You'll begin to discover some things about you that you don't know you've got. One of the greatest steps toward success is self-confidence. And the greatest builder of self-confidence is self-esteem. doing the things you know you should do so that at the end of the day you have this great satisfaction. The old prophet said, "The sleep of a laboring man is sleep." Not the sleep of a goof off man. Not the sleep of a joker. No, the sleep of one who labors. That's the sleep that's sweet. [Music] Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth and always feel that your life has ultimate significance. In order to have what you want in life, you must stop staring at the top of that mountain. You must stop creating excuses for why you can't or don't feel like it. And you must put your head down and look at the first step in front of you. And then you must take the action and start walking toward what you want. I don't believe everybody can be the biggest and the fastest and the strongest and the smartest. But I believe you are number one when you get up in the morning and say, "Today, I'm going to give it my best shot." I believe you're number one when at the end of the day, you can honestly look in that mirror and say, "Today, I gave it my best shot." Winning is in all of us. We all want to win, but the path people take to get to winning, everybody wants the end result, and they want to feel the sugar and the the the the confetti and all that other stuff. But what you have to endure to win, no one wants to talk about. Your reasons have power. Your reasons will drive you. When you have doubt, when your faith becomes weak, your reasons will fortify your faith. When you have an inner conversation, say, "No, don't do that. Your reasons will become your rod and your staff to comfort you, to take you through those challenging moments." So, boy, don't you stop now. Don't you set out on the steps cuz you find this kind of hard. But I still going, boy. I still climb and life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Well, life for none of us has been a crystal stair. But we must keep moving. We must keep going. You have to lose your fear of failure. Failure is part of the process. People who never fail never try. You have to fail. You got to get it wrong to get it right. Moments away from beginning your journey through life. Moments away from starting to change the world for the better. It will not be easy. Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when the times are the toughest,