I WILL NOT QUIT

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Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Spoken by:

Les Brown
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Eric Thomas
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Trent Shelton
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Andy Frisella
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Art Williams
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Steve Harvey
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Music:

Secession Studios - To The Gallows

Secession Studios
thesecession.bandcamp.com

Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Life will tempt you to become bitter.
Age will make you bitter.
’Cause during age you collect enough experiences
to become cynical.
’Till after a while,
you don’t expect anything good to happen
because you’ve been through so many bad things
that if anybody comes knocking at your door
you’re predisposed to think it’s something evil.

(00:23):
You have to be careful as you become bitter.
Either your troubles make you better
or they make you bitter.
We mature
with damage.
Not with the years.
You gain wisdom
from your wounds.
You will grow through

(00:43):
what you go through.
But you must be willing to go through it.
Don’t you give up on your dream.
I don’t care if you don’t have the money.
And you don’t have the help.
And you don’t have the family for it.
And you don’t have the background for it.
And you don’t have the friends for it.
Don’t you give up on your dream.

(01:05):
Don’t you do it.
Don’t you do it.
Don’t you do it.
It may take you twice as long.
You may have to take courses and classes.
You might not read as fast,
you might not move as quick,
you might not have this much,
but don’t you quit.
The days that break you
are the days that make you.

(01:25):
Every time you go through those dark times
and you fight your way through
to the other side,
you’re getting stronger.
It takes courage to be successful.
It is far easier
not to be successful.
It takes courage to be exceptional.
It takes courage to be wise.
It takes courage to be educated.
It takes courage to be knowledgeable.

(01:47):
Because the moment you do,
you don’t talk like you...
oh, you forgot where you came from...
Look at you, talkin’...
It takes courage.
is it easy?
No,
it’s not easy.
It’s not easy living your dream.
It’s not easy reinventing yourself.
It’s not easy sticking to and focusing on your goal.
It’s not easy being happy
in the midst of a great deal of negativity.

(02:09):
It’s not easy to remove people from your life
that are no longer good for you.
And when you experience defeat and failure
again and again and again,
it’s not easy to pull yourself back up
and start all over again.
It takes a great deal of courage to face yourself and say,
no, my life is not what I want it to be
and I can change.
That’s not easy.
It takes guts.

(02:30):
You got to dig down deep to get it out.
Keep on going
again and again and again.
You’ve got to believe in yourself.
You’ve got to believe in your abilities,
your ideas
unquestionably.
No, it’s hard.
Yes, it’s hard.
It’s difficult.
And it’s worth it.
It doesn’t matter what it costs.

(02:50):
I’m not going to rest until I have it.
I’m going to do it.
And if this is the price that I must pay,
then so be it.
When you make up your mind,
making up your mind is powerful.
Some of us, we make up our mind and say,
we gonna stay in this.
I’m gonna stay in this mess.
I’m not gonna go back to that
or I’m not gonna quit.
Or whatever the situation may be,

(03:10):
you got it done.
You found a way.
You created a way.
You prayed a way.
So when you make up your mind,
it’s over.
You gotta already make up your mind
before you get to cancer.
You gotta make up in your mind
before you get to that exam and passed that exam.
You gotta look at it before you even get to it.
You gotta be positive.
You gotta be excited.
You gotta be confident.
You gotta be tough.

(03:30):
You can be positive or you can be negative.
you can be happy or you can be sad.
You can be a winner or you can be a loser.
Well folks, I made up my mind
as long as there’s a breath left in me,
ain’t nobody or nothing gonna make me quit.
Ain’t nobody gonna make me give up,
ain’t nobody gonna make me negative.
Dadgummit, I’m gonna do it
and I’m gonna be happy and I’m gonna be positive.

(03:51):
You have got
to change
the way you think.
It is the whole determining factor
of where you go in life.
We are all where we are today
because we thought ourself to this position.
If you don’t like the position,
think yourself out of it.
Change your attitude,
you change your altitude.
No matter what your hardships,

(04:13):
no matter where you came from,
no matter what your parents did,
no matter what your f*cking teachers told you,
you
can learn
to expect
winning.
So what your mama told you, you can’t do it.
So what your daddy told you, you can’t do it.
So what your teacher told you,
you don’t have what it takes.
You don’t walk in their reality.
You don’t live in their reality.

(04:34):
Learn to live in your own reality.
You walk with a certain confidence when you know
you expect to get all A’s.
You expect to be rich.
When you expect to be healthy,
I don’t care
what the doctor says.
You expect it,
and when you expect it,
that’s what happens.
It’s my journey.
Nobody decides how I live.
Nobody decides my life.
I’m not a victim.

(04:55):
I’m a victor.
It’s my journey.
This is your journey.
You’re not a victim.
It can end the way you want it to end,
but you gotta grind like you want it.
And you can grind your way through it,
or you can grind your way through it.