Watch This Everyday To Change Your Life- Denzel Washington Motivation

put God first put God first in everything you do everything that you think you see in 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 I was sitting in my mother's Beauty paror 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 was flunked out of college I'm thinking about in the 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've been protected I've been directed I've been corrected I've kept God in my life and his 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 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 but 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 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 on make sure you got something to fall back on honey but I never understood that concept 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 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 [Music] 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 first was the light bulb P 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 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 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 audition 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 part poverty that need help and Africa is just the 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 need your [Music] help 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 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 [Music] 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 majors some of you are theologians nurses sociologists some of you have money some of you have patients 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 27

7 1975 I was helping my mother in her beauty shop my mother owned a beauty shop up in M Veron 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 at every time I looked at her she kept giving me these strange looks so she finally took the dryer off her

head and said 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 [Music] people and in the years that followed just as that woman prophesize 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

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