Just because your path is lonely, doesn’t mean your path is wrong.
Everybody won’t be willing to grow to where you want to go.
Everybody won’t make it to your next level because everybody won’t be willing to sacrifice what it takes to create greatness.
The ones that started with you might not finish with you.
The ones that had your back might turn their back.
But you can’t allow those who left you to keep you from your best you.
You can’t allow what left your life to stop your life.
In order to move up, there’s some things you must be willing to give up.
In order to get ahead, there’s some things you must be willing to leave behind.
Never let the fear of losing people cause you to lose yourself.
This is your journey.
It’s not about perfection, but progression.
It’s not about being perfect, it’s about becoming better.
Sometimes you have to go through your worst to become your best.
Sometimes you have to lose everything just to gain everything.
You will never get to success by skipping the process.
You will never grow without growing pains.
Don’t give up on you because they gave up on you.
Don’t stop believing in you because they stopped believing in you.
What they think should never influence what you know.
How they feel about you should never change how you feel about yourself.
Your battle is not with them, your battle is within.
So you keep your eyes on the prize.
You rise above the lies.
You rise above the hate.
You rise above the fake.
You rise above anything or anyone that’s in your way that’s trying to prevent you from being great.
Never back down, even when your back’s against the wall.
It matters how many times you get back up, not how many times you fall.
It’s about your mentality.
What the point of dreaming a dream if you’re not working to turn that dream into reality.
Your only limit is you.
Don’t surrender to your struggle, make that struggle surrender to you.
Pain is temporary but giving up is forever.
Never be good or good enough when you know inside you lives someone better.
You didn’t come this far just to settle.
You didn’t come this far just to accept whatever.
You came this far to take it to your next level.
You came this far to become something greater.
And what makes it even more special, is that you didn’t depend on favors.
You did it with plenty of haters.
Nobody can stop your life when your life is highly favored.
When the destination is worth reaching, the path won’t always be perfect.
The valley may be ugly, but the peak will be worth it.
— Transcribed/adapted from Trent Shelton
