THIS IS EVERYDAY AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE - Denzel Washington Motivational Speech 2022

Denzel Washington Motivational Speech 2022

 I discovered that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you risk nothing Nelson Mandela said that passion cannot be found by playing small and settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living now I am confident in your experiences at school and apply to college and choose your major and decide what you want to do with the life I'm sure the people who told you

To make sure you have something to fall back on, make sure you have something to fall back on honey, but I never understood that concept of having something to fall back on if I'm going to fall, I don't want to fall back on it. anything I want to fall forward I figure at least this way I will see what I am going to hit no consistency you will never finish so do what you are passionate about taking risks don't be afraid to miss there is a no

Since your test was nine points and you had to draw five lines with a pencil inside those nine points without lifting a pencil, the only way to do that was to get out of the box, don't be afraid to think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail to dream big but remember dreams without goals are my only dreams.

Remember that Thomas Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful experiments while falling home run, you know I didn't know that because 1000 and the first bulb fell forward? Each bombed try is one bit nearer to progress. You need to face challenges and I'm certain you've known about it previously, yet I need to converse with you about why it's significant. You will fail at some point in your life. Approve. You will lose, you will be ashamed.

You'll suck at something yourself, no inquiry concerning it and I know it's most likely not a customary directive for a graduation service today. I tell you to accept it because it is inevitable that in the acting business you will fail all the time early in your career. I auditioned for a role in a Broadway musical. I thought the role was perfect for me, except for the fact that I can't sing, I didn't get the job.

But this is what I did not give up. I didn't back down. I got out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition. I prayed and prayed and prayed, but I keep failing and failing and failing. but it didn't matter because you know what there is an old saying that you stay in the barbershop long enough sooner or later you're going to get a haircut to take a break and I took a break last year I did a play

It hit the billboards on Broadway but here's the kicker that was in the Court Theater it was in the same theater that I failed the first audition 30 years prior the fact is every one of the alumni here today have the preparation and the ability to succeed, yet do you have the guts? 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 achieve something you never had you have to do something you never did is imagine you are in your

The deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts that represent your unfulfilled potential the ghosts of ideas you never acted on the ghosts of talents you didn't use and are standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset they say that 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 comes [Music] I just got back from the beautiful country of South Africa but there are places there with terrible parvat poverty that need help when Africa is just the tip of the iceberg 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 needs a lot

And we need it from you, we really need it from you young people, I mean I'm not speaking for the rest of us here, but I know I'm getting a little grayer, we needed you young people because remember this. but you have to go out you have to give everything you have whether it's your time your talent your prayers or your treasures [Music] what are you going to do with what

I'm not talking about how much you have? Some of you are business specialists, some of you are theologians, some of you are nurses, some of you are sociologists, some of you have money, some of you have patients, some of you have kindness, some of you have loved, some of you have a gift. of longsuffering, whatever it is, whatever your gift, what are you going to do with what you've got, okay, now this is my last point on failure, sometimes it's the best way to

Find out where you are going, your life will never be a straight path. I started at Fordham University as a pre-med student. I took a course called cardiac morphogenesis. I couldn't read it. I couldn't tell. I didn't pass, so I decided to study undergraduate law and then journalism, and without an academic focus, my grades shot up in their own direction. I had a 1.8 GPA and the university very politely suggested that I might as well make some

Free time I was 20 years old I was at my lowest point and then one day and I remember the exact day March 27, 1975, I was helping my mother and her beauty salon my mother owned a beauty salon in my Vernon and there I was this older woman who was considered one of the old ladies of the village and I didn't know her personally but she looked at me in the mirror and every time I looked through the mirror I could see her behind me and she was staring at him I just kept

Looking at me every time I looked at him, she kept giving me these weird looks, so she finally took the dryer off her head and told some that she said something I'll never forget, she said, young man, I have a prophecy, a spiritual prophecy, she said. you are going to travel the world and talk to millions of people and in the years that follow just like that prophetic woman I have traveled the world and spoken as demands

Of people through my films, millions who to this day could not see me. I'm done to this day. I couldn't see while I was talking to them and they couldn't see me, they only see the movie they couldn't see. the real me, but I see you today [Music] and I'm encouraged by what I see and strengthened by what I see because taking risks isn't just about looking for a job, it's also about knowing

What you know and what you don't know is about being open to people and ideas the opportunities you take the people you know the people you love the faith you have that's what will define you never get discouraged never stop giving it your all you have and when you fall through the light remember this fall forward