Impact Quotes: Live on Your Feet, Never Back Down

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Tom Bilyeu shares inspiration from Emiliano Zapata, Winston Churchill, and Lewis B. Chesty Puller. Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory is a first-of-its-kind company designed to facilitate global change through the incubation of mission-based businesses and the cultivation of empowering content. Every piece of content Impact Theory creates is meant to underscore the company mission to free people from The Matrix and help them unlock their true potential. Impact Theory exists to inspire the next generation of game-changing companies and creators that will make a true and lasting impact on the world. FOLLOW TOM BILYEU TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2iyjY5P INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2j7vqX8 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2hPStWo FOLLOW IMPACT THEORY TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2iC5lN3 INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2hPSGJa FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2iystOf

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0:00.0	As Emiliano Zapata said, I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
0:09.3	It's one of those things I think echoes through everybody's heart, but it is easy to say
0:16.0	and it is very hard to do.
0:18.5	And that brings me to the most central quote to my life.
0:24.5	Never, never, never, never.
0:28.7	And nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except the convictions of honor
0:34.2	and good sense, never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming
0:41.1	might of the enemy, Winston Churchill.
0:45.9	That to me is the mantra that you have to say over and over and over.
0:52.8	If you want to live on your feet, you have to understand there are going to be times
0:58.0	where the might of the enemy is so clearly superior to the force that you have mustered
1:06.2	in your own soul, that what they bring to bear, they are so much farther ahead, they have
1:12.1	force that makes you want to crumble and despair at their feet and at that moment you have
1:17.5	to know who you are.
1:19.2	At that moment you have to know that under no circumstances would you ever fucking yield
1:23.8	to that, that you will rise up, that you will stand before anybody not afraid to be struck
1:28.5	down that you could handle.
1:33.8	We're surrounded.
1:38.7	They're in front of us, behind us, to the left and right of us.
1:44.2	They can't get away this time.
1:46.5	And you can be surrounded.
1:47.8	When you can be in a position where you know that you're outgun and still convince yourself
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