Faith & Spirit Quote by Mordecai Orimiladeye

The line works like a late-night jolt of motivational caffeine: blunt, binary, and built for someone staring down burnout. Coming from an entrepreneur, it reads less like theology and more like a survival framework. Entrepreneurship is an endurance sport dressed up as innovation; the days are long, the feedback is brutal, and the scoreboard resets constantly. In that world, “still breathing” becomes the lowest possible metric of viability. Not thriving, not winning, not even stable - just alive. That’s the point.

The intent is clear: interrupt the spiral. When people feel they’ve “failed”, they tend to narrate that failure as final. Orimiladeye’s move is to deny finality by redefining the finish line. You don’t get to call the story over while you’re still here to change the next chapter. It’s a rhetorical trick, but an effective one: it swaps an abstract question (“What is my purpose?”) for a concrete fact (“I’m still alive”), then turns that fact into permission to keep going.

The subtext is also a quiet rebuke to despair and to the culture of premature self-eulogies - the social-media habit of declaring yourself “done” the moment you’re exhausted. The God-language widens the audience beyond hustle culture, adding moral gravity and a sense of being held, watched, counted. Even if you don’t share the belief, the structure still lands: existence itself becomes evidence against surrender. In a moment obsessed with optimization, it argues for something simpler and tougher: endurance as meaning.