Denzel Washington's Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS - One of the Most Eye Opening Speeches Ever

You've invested a lot in your

Education and people have invested in you and let me tell you the world needs your talents and does it ever?

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 needed from you the young people because 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

behind a hearse

I'll say it again

You will never see a u-haul behind a hearse

You can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried it and all they got was robbed

So the question is

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 loved

Some of you have the gift of long-suffering whatever it is, whatever your gift is

What are you going to do with what you have?

Fail big

That's right fail big

Today is the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be couldn't 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 must apply discipline

and

consistency

in order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline, which you were already done and

Consistency every day not just want to Z 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

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twirl 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 yeah. 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

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

You know

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 that 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 this is what I mean

Reggie Jackson struck out 26 hundred times in his career the most in the history of baseball

But you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the homeruns?

Fall forward

Thomas edison kentuc did one thousand failed experiments as you know that I didn't know that

Because the one thousand and first was the light bulb

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

important I

Got three reasons and then you can pick up your iPhone's

First

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 a I'm telling you embrace it because it's inevitable

And I should know 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 Quint

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 continue to fail and fail and fail but it didn't matter because you know what,

There's an old saying you hang around the barbershop 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

if someone talked about it won the Tony Award and

I didn't have to sing by the way, but here's the kicker. He was at the Court Theatre

It was at the same theatre that I failed that first audition 30 years prior

The point is and I'll pick up the pace

The point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed

But do you have the guts to fail? Here's my second point about failure 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

Les Brown's a motivational speaker. He made an analogy about this

He says imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled

potential the ghosts of the ideas you never acted on the ghosts of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your

bed angry

disappointed and upset

they say 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

Not only take risks

But to be open to life to accept new views and to be open to new opinions

To be willing to speak at a commencement at one of the best country vesica the universities in the country

Even though you're scared stiff. Well, it may be frightening. It will also be rewarding

Because 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 and remember this

Fall forward

Say thank you

but 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

How I live my life. That's 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 sit before hand to indicate that it's yours

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 in to grow and to make money

that desire that itch that's God's proof to you sit beforehand already to indicate that it's your

and

Anything 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