Denzel Washington Best Motivational Speech - Change Your Life Today in 30 Mins! #motivation

I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks nothing Nelson Mandela said there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living now I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life I'm sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back back on make sure you got something to fall back on honey but I never understood that concept having something to fall back on if I'm going to fall I don't want to fall back on anything I want to fall forward I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit without consistency you'll never finish so do what you feel passionate about passionate about out take chances don't be afraid to fail there's an old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil Within These nine dots without lifting the pencil the only way to do it was to go outside the box don't be afraid to think outside the box don't be afraid to fail big to dream big but remember dreams without goals are just dreams Reggie Jackson struck out 2600 times in his career the most in the history of baseball but you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the home runs fall forward Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments did you know that I didn't know that because the 1,000 and1st was the light bulb fall forward every failed experiment is one step closer to success you've got to take risks and I'm sure you've probably heard that before but I want to talk to you about why that's so important you will fail at some point in your life accept it you will lose you will embarrass yourself you will suck at something there's no doubt about it and I know that's probably not a traditional message for a graduation ceremony but hey I'm telling you embrace it because it's inevitable in the acting business you fail all the time early on in my career I auditioned for a part in a Broadway musical perfect role for me I thought except for the fact that I can't sing I I didn't get the job but here's the thing I didn't quit I didn't fall back I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition I prayed I prayed and I prayed but I continued to fail and fail and fail but it didn't matter because you know what there's an old saying you hang around the barber shop long enough sooner or later you're going to get a haircut so you will catch a break and I did catch a [Music] break last year I did a play called fences on Broadway but here's the kicker it was at the court theater it was at the same theater that I failed that first aition 30 years prior the point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed but do you have the guts to fail if you don't fail you're not even trying I'll say it again if you don't fail you're not even trying to get something you never had you have to do something you never did so imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset they say we we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and now we have to go to the Grave together so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time [Music] comes I just got back from South Africa it's a beautiful country but there are places there with terrible pover poverty that need help and Africa is just the tip of the iceberg the Middle East needs your help Japan needs your help Alabama needs your help Tennessee needs your help Louisiana needs your help Philadelphia needs your [Music] help the world needs a lot and we need it from you we really do we need need it from you young people I mean I'm not speaking to the rest of us up here but I know I'm getting a little grayer we need it from you the young people cuz remember this you got to get out there you got to give it everything you got whether it's your time your your your talent your prayers or your Treasures what are you going to do with what you have I'm not talking about how much you have some of you are business made some of you are theologians nurses sociologists some of you have money some of you have patience some of you have kindness some of you have love some of you have the gift of longsuffering whatever it is whatever your gift is what are you going to do with what you have all right now here's my last point about failure sometimes it's the best way to figure out where you're going your life will never be a straight path I began at forom University as a Premed student I I took a course called the cardiac morpha Genesis I couldn't read it I couldn't say it I sure couldn't pass it so then I decided to go into pre-law then journalism and with no academic Focus my grades took off in their own Direction I was a 1. 8 GPA and the university very politely suggested that it might be better to take some time off I was 20 years old I was at my lowest point and then one day and I remember the exact day March 27th 1975 I was helping my mother in her beauty shop my mother owned a beauty shop up in my Vernon and there's there was this older woman who was uh considered one of the elders in the town and I didn't know her personally but I I was looking in the mirror and every time I looked at the mirror I could see her behind me and she was staring at me she just kept looking at me every time I looked at her she kept giving me these strange looks so she finally took the dryer off her head and said to some she said something I'll never forget she said young boy I have a prophecy a spiritual prophecy she said you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people and in the years that followed just as that woman prophesies I have traveled the world and I have spoken to millions of people through my movies Millions who up till this day couldn't see me I who who up until this day I couldn't see while I was talking to them and they couldn't see me they could only see the movie they couldn't see the real me but I see you today and I'm encouraged by what I see and I'm strengthened by what I see because taking risk is not just about going for a job it's also about knowing what you know and what you don't know it's about being open to people and to ideas the chances you take the People You Meet the people you love the faith that you have that's what's going to Define you never be discouraged never hold back give everything you got and when you fall throughout life remember this fall forward number one put God [Music] first put God first in everything you do everything that you think you see it me everything that I've accomplished everything that you think I have and I have a few things everything that I have is by the grace of God understand that it's a gift 40 years ago March 27th 1975 it was 40 years ago uh just this past March I was flunking out of college I had a 1. 7 grade point average I hope none of you can relate at a 1.

7 grade point average I was sitting in my mother's beauty shop they still call it beauty shops now what they call it yeah I was sit in the beauty paror I was sitting in my mother's beauty parlor and I'm looking in the mirror and I see behind me this woman under the dryer and every time she looked up she every time I looked up she was looking at me just looking me in the eye and I didn't know who she was and I said you know she said somebody give me a pen give me a pencil I have a prophecy March 27 1975 she said boy you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people now mind you I flunked out of college I'm thinking about joining an army I didn't know what I was going to do and she's telling me I'm going to travel the world and speak to millions of people well I have traveled the world and I have spoke to millions of people but that's not the most important thing the success that I had the most important thing is that what she taught me and what she told me that day has stayed with me since I I've been protected I've been directed I've been corrected I've kept God in my life and has kept me humble I didn't always stick with him but he always stuck with me so stick with him in everything you do if you think you want to do what you think I've done then do what I've done and stick with God number two fail big that's right right fail big today is the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be it's can be very frightening it's a new world out there it's a mean world out there and you only live once so do what you feel passionate about passionate about take chances professionally don't be afraid to fail there's an old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil Within These nine dots without lifting the pencil the only way to do it was to go outside the box so don't be afraid to go outside the box don't be afraid to think outside the box don't be afraid to fail big to dream big but remember dreams without goals are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment so have dreams but have goals life goals yearly goals monthly goals daily goals I try to give myself a goal every day sometimes just to not curse somebody out simple goals but have goals and understand that to achieve these goals you you must apply discipline and consistency in order to achieve your goals you must apply discipline which you have already done and consistency every day not just on Tuesday and miss a few days you have to work at it every day you have to plan every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan hard work works working really hard is what successful people do and in this text tweet twerk world that you've grown up in remember just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done remember that just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done don't confuse movement with progress my mother told me she said yeah cuz you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere so continue to strive continue to have goals continue to progress number three you'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse I'll say it again you'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse I don't care how much money you make you can't take it with you and it's not how much you have it's what you do with what you have we all have different talents some of you will be doctors some lawyers some scientists some Educators some nurses some teachers yeah okay some preachers the most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else why is it selfish because the gratification the goodness that comes to you the good feeling the good feeling that I get from helping others nothing's better than that not jewelry not big house I have not the cars but the the it's the joy that's where the joy is in helping others that's where the success is finally I pray pray that you put your slippers way under the bed tonight so that when you wake up in the morning you have to get on your knees to reach [Music] them and while you and while you're down there say thank you for Grace thank you for Mercy thank you for understanding thank you for wisdom thank you for parents thank you for love thank you for kindness thank you for humility thank you for peace thank you for Prosperity say thank you in advance for what's already yours that's how I live my life that's why I why I am one of the reasons why I am today say thank you in advance for what is already yours true desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours [Music] already I'll say it again true desire in the heart that itch that you have whatever it is you want to do that thing that you want to do to help others and to to grow and to make money that desire that itch that's God's proof to you sent beforehand already to indicate that it's yours and anything you you want good you can have so claim it work hard to get it when you get it reach back pull someone else up Each one teach one don't just aspire to make a living aspire to make a difference [Music] imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes well as I said I'm a positive person I think that uh you have to take what you're given and and and do something with it you know the easiest thing to do is complain about it and give into that but I try to turn that into something positive and so far it's worked for me fail big that's right fail big today is the beginning of the rest of your life and it can can be very frightening it it's a new world out there it's a mean world out there and you only live once so do what you feel passionate about take chances to get something you never had you have to do something you never did I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks nothing I just can't live my life based upon what other people think about me so I can't concern myself too much with what other people think you know it's just not healthy the chances you take the people you love the faith that you have that's what's going to Define you dreams without goals remain Drams Just dreams and ultimately fuel disappointment goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency there is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living now I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life I'm sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on make sure you got something to fall back on honey but I never understood that concept having something to fall back on if I'm going to fall I don't want to fall back on anything except my faith I want to fall forward I figure at least this way I'll see what I'm going to hit fall forward thank you for Mercy thank you for understanding thank you for wisdom thank you for parents thank you for love thank you for kindness thank you for humility thank you for peace thank you for Prosperity say thank you in advance for what's already yours you will fail at some point in your life accept it you will lose you will embarrass yourself you will suck at something there's no doubt about it embrace it because it's inevitable Reggie Jackson struck out 2600 times in his career the most in the history of baseball but you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the Home Run for forward is Thomas ederson conducted 1,000 failed experiments did you know that I didn't know that because the 1,1 was the light bulb fall forward so don't be afraid to go outside the box don't be afraid to think outside the box don't be afraid to fail big to dream big you you've invested a lot in your education and people have invested in you and and let me tell you the world needs your talents man does it ever I just got back from South Africa it's a beautiful country but there are places there with terrible P poverty that need help and Africa is just the tip of the iceberg the Middle East needs your help Japan needs your help Alabama needs your help Tennessee needs your help Louisiana needs your help Philadelphia needs your help the world the world needs a lot and we need it from you we really do we need it from you young people I mean I'm not speaking for the rest of us up here but I know I'm getting a little grayer we need it from you the young people cuz remember this so you got to get out there you got to give it everything you got whether it's your time your your your talent your prayers or your Treasures because remember this you will never see a U-Haul all behind a hearse what are you going to do with what you have I'm not talking about how much you have some of you are business majors some of you are theologians nurses sociologists some of you have money some of you have patience some of you have kindness some of you have love some of you have the gift of longsuffering whatever it is whatever your gift is what are you going to do with what you have if you don't fail you're not even trying I'll say it again if you don't fail you're not even trying my wife told me this great expression to get something you never had you have to do something you never did because taking risk is not just about going for a job it's also about knowing what you know and what you don't know it's about being open to people and to ideas 40 years ago March 27th 1975 it was 40 years ago uh just this past March I was flunking out of college I had a 1. 7 grade point average I hope none of you can relate I had a 1.