If You Are Never Giving Up Anything Is Possible

I don't care how hard you fall, I don't care how long you've been down. If you can look up, you can get up, and let me say this to you as well. If somebody knocks you down, that's right, sometimes there isn't anything that you can do about it in life.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do about getting knocked down, but my problem is if I come back a week later and you are still knocked down, that's a problem.

There is no success in life without struggle, for without struggle there is no progress. I don't care how slow you started. I don't care how weak of a start you got in January, February, and March, the race is not given to the quick nor the swift nor the strong, but to him that endures to the end. So remember, if you can look up, you can get up. You are not a victim, so stop talking like it, stop acting like it.

If you are part of the problem, you are part of the solution, and it can work for anybody, but you have got to work for it. We've got to get out of this backpack mentality, and you said to ET, "What's the backpack mentality?" Do you remember when you were in class? It was the last 10 minutes of class before the bell rang.

You were already packing your stuff in the backpack. You already had your backpack and were ready to go. You say, "What do you mean, ET?" You're ready to go before you've even got the information in some classes.

"You've got to be careful because the teacher doesn't really start giving out the gems." They don't really start giving out the real information until the very end, and some of you have already packed your bags. You've got to get out of that backpack mentality. You've got to stop quitting. You've got to stop giving up. There are some people. You leave one thing and you go to the next thing. You've got the backpack mentality.

You're trying to pack up. You're trying to do new things when you haven't finished doing what you were supposed to do before. You haven't even seen the class all the way through. You've missed some very good principles. You've missed some very good gems. Why?

You're giving up. The reality is that if you give up too soon, if you don't learn all the lessons that you're supposed to learn, you're going to keep going in circles in life and you will never get to where you're supposed to get to in life, so do me a favor.

Don't pack your bags before it's time. You cannot overcome until you become. You've got to be a student to get good grades. You've got to be a good wife. Be a good husband. You've got to be an athlete before you can score and do better than everybody else.

You've got to become first, and then, once you become, you can overcome. It can work for you just like it's worked for every other millionaire. Just like it's worked for everybody else who's doing well in that relationship. It can work, just like everybody else is doing well in school. It can work, but you've got to work it.