Stand Up

Leadership Summit 2011

Session Three
“Stand Up” by Cory Booker

*Regardless of the storms in our lives, we must be willing to stand.

*You have a choice: will you grow dumb, fat and happy as you feast on what was provided for you OR, will you metabolize your blessings and stand up and use them for what they were intended for?

*Don’t let the world tell you who you are…You were born unique.

*Don’t let the world defeat you or seduce you into mediocrity.

*You have access to untold opportunities…you must claim them.

*In the midst of people who seem to be reaching higher than you, head for the roof!

*The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside you.

*Never let the world outside of you dim the hope and courage inside of you.

*Be the change you want to see in the world.

*The only way to make a change in this world is for it to start with one’s self.

*If it is to be its up to me.

*Before you tell me what you want to teach or preach, show me first how you choose to live and give.

*There are so many distractions from the profound potential to do God’s work in this world.

*Right now, in this moment, YOU can change the world.

*Don’t miss the opportunity God has put right in front of you to show your truth to the world.

*We have one choice every second of every day… to accept life’s circumstances as they are or to take responsibility for changing them.

*We are stars…if we don’t live life brilliantly, we won’t leave a legacy of light and illumination.

*Stand up and bring light into the darkness. God gives us the power, but we get distracted with our own stuff.

*Don’t trip over people God has put in front of you. They are there for a reason.

*Let us now STAND Up. Let us STAND and tell our truth to a world that is yearning for it. Let us STAND because people stood for us, fought for us, bled for us. Let us STAND…In this world we don’t get everything we pay for, but we must pay for everything we get. Let us STAND, because of what Martin Luther King said… change will never roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but it is carried in on the backs of soldiers who will stand and fight for it. Let us STAND, because those five words… “Liberty and Justice For All” cannot just be a pledge, they must be a purpose and a passion every day and in every way. Let us STAND UP with all of our courage and our dignity and our love and if we STAND like this we the people will find a way to get to the roof!