A View of Attaining Prosperity by Overcoming Obstacles as Described in an Inspirational Speech

The inspirational quote that I picked for my previous homework assignment was “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful”. As soon as I heard this quote, it inspired me. What made this quote so inspiring was that if people really wanted to be successful as much as they want to breathe then they will succeed in life. If all you do is focus on becoming successful you will reach and achieve your goals. The only person who can stop you from becoming successful is yourself. If you do not achieve your goals, it’s because of you not anyone else. If you take out all the things that will distract you from achieving success it will help you focus on becoming successful.

I obtain this quote from a motivational speaker speech that was intended for college students. The motivational speaker explains in his speech that you have to eliminate all other aspects that will not help you become successful. You can tell that this speech was intended for college students because they can get easily get distracted or lost track on what’s important while living on a college campus. He’s basically saying that it’s up to make your destiny. If you want to become successful when you will do whatever it takes to become it. Despite any obstacles that come across their path. They will overcome everything to receive that college degree. His speech was to help motivated those students who are lacking in class or even in sports.

The motivational speaker speech can be directed towards a lot of things such as sports, education, careers, politics etc. His speech is extremely powerful so it can reach out to anyone. All the topics I just named can relate to his speech. The people who are on top or at a high level in their specific topic had the drive that he talks about in his speech. I guarantee you that they were focus on succeeding in their field. They did not procrastinate about completing a task and when they were doing the task, they were focused on it and nothing else. That’s what separates the people who make it and the people who don’t make it. The ones who don’t make procrastinate about everything, does everything last minute, doesn’t put their all into their work, and just don’t want to be successful as bad as their peers.

This speech can be directed towards sports because to be the best you have to work the hardest. You have to go above and beyond everyone else to really succeed. Just doing enough to get by cannot satisfy you; you must want to do more extra work. Same thing applies to education. The top person in your class is the one who turns their cell phone off while their studying, their reading more than their supposed to, and is studying every night. They are not procrastinating about studying, reading, or doing homework, they’re not waiting until the last minute to do their work or study, and when their doing homework or studying they are focused only on them not getting easily distracted about everything else. You can elevate your career to heights you never thought were possible but you can only do that if you apply yourself.

The intention of the speech was to motivate, inspired, and encourage people to handle their business. The speech is basically a reality check for people who are not taking care of business. He’s telling you what you are doing and what you need to do to become successful. It’s not hard to figure out what you need to do at all. He says that “when all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful”. Most people say that what to be successful but they don’t want it bad, they just somewhat want it. They don’t want to be successful as much as they want to go to a party, or go to the movies, or go hang with their friends, or even sleep. He explains how sometimes you have to get up sleep to be successful. You have to want to stay up for hours typing a paper or studying for an exam to really become successful.

Most people don’t go the extra mile to become successful. The day that all you want to do is become successful and nothing else is the day you reach success like never before. Sometimes you have to go days without sleep or some days without eating to really reach that limit. Most people in life do not reach that limit because they do not apply their self. They don’t even get their self a chance to reach those heights because they honestly don’t want it that bad. If you are studying for a long period of time and you stop because your tire, you’re quitting on yourself. You’re crippling yourself for the upcoming exam or test that you are studying for. Despite however many hours you study for, it don’t matter because you stopped when you were tired. That’s what he preaches about in his speech; to push yourself to limits that you didn’t even know were possible.

It don’t make since to quit studying or reading when you’re tired because you have already stayed up for hours doing it, so you mine as well stay up for a couple more hours to make sure you understand everything. Because you will award yourself be getting an acceptable grade on a paper or exam and that’s what me want. It’s all about self-motivation; no one can do your work for you it’s up to you. Your mom, sister, brother, or peers cannot do it for you. It has to be you to tell yourself that you’re not going to sleep because you have to study or be the one to tell you friends sorry I can’t hang with you tonight because I have to study for an exam.

The motivational speaker intended audiences were those people who need to be inspired or that need an extra boost of confidence to get them through a difficult time in life. I believe that it can be intended for anyone such as students, athletes, or people who are just starting off their careers. Emmitt Smith the football player once said “All men are created equal, some work harder in pre-season”. Even though this is a sports quote, it still speaks volume for other topics. The athletes that are the all the best in the sport worked hard during the season but worked even harder during Pre-season, that is basically what the quote is saying. This also can apply to education because they are students who work the hardest in class and after class goes to the professor and still ask questions. They might understand the material in class but their just getting a complete understanding of everything from the professor. That’s what makes them the top performers in their class. The only way someone could not relate to this speech is if they did not want to become successful in life.

Football is the best genre to explain that can relate to this speech. Theirs a famous saying in football “it’s not the team/player with the most skill, it’s the team/player with the most heart”. Heart will beat out skill 10 out of 10 times in football or in any sport. I vaguely remember a couple years ago in college football; Appalachian state defeated University of Michigan, which was one of the biggest upset in divisor 1 history. Michigan were supposed to blow Appalachian state out, it wasn’t even supposed to be a close game at all. But Appalachian state prevailed against the all mighty University of Michigan and won. This example shows that it takes more than just skill to win a game, it takes heart and that his main message in his speech. You have to want it for yourself and when you do want it, you have to stay with it.