Motivational Quotes in English for Life
i found that nothing in lifeis worth while unless you take risks nothing nelson man dela said there is no pass ionto be found playing smallin settling for a life that's less than.
The one you're capable of you have something to fall back on make sure. yougot something to fall back on honey but i never understood that concep thaving something to fall back onif i'm going to falli don't want to fall back on any thing want to fall forwardi figure. at least this way i'll see whati'm going to
hit with out consist ency you'll never finishso do what you feel passionate aboutpassionate abouttake chancesdon't be afraid to fail there's an oldiq test was nine dotsand you had to draw five lines with apencil within these nine dotswithout lifting the pencilthe only way to do it was to go outsidethe boxdon't be afraid tothink outside the box don't be afraid tofailbigto dreambig but rememberdreamswithout
goalsare just dreamsreggie jackson struck out 3600 times inhis career the mostin the history of baseball but you don'thear about the strikeouts peopleremember the home runs fall forwardthomas edison conducted 1 000 failedexperiments did you know that i didn'tknow thatbecause the one thousand and first wasthe light bulbfall forwardevery failed experiment is one stepcloser to successgot 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 importantyou will fail at some point in your lif eit you will lose you will embarrass your self you will suck at something there's no doubt about itand i know that's probably not atraditional message for a grad uation ceremony but hey i'm telling you embrace it because it' sinevitablein the acting
business you fail all thetime early on in my careeri auditioned for a part in a broadwayalperfect role for me i thoughtexcept for the fact that i can't singi didn't get the jobbut here's the thingi didn't quit i didn't fall backi walked out of there to prepare for thenext audition and the next audition andthe next auditioni prayedi prayedand i prayedbut
i continued to failand failand fail but it didn't matter becauseyou know whatthere's an old saying you hang aroundthe barber shop long enough sooner orlater you're gonna get a haircutso you will catch a break and i didcatch a breaklast yeari did a play called fences on broadway but here's the kicker it was at the court the aterit was at the same theater that i failed that first audition 40 years prior the point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent tosucceedbut do
you have the gutsto failif you don't failyou're not even tryingi'll say it again if you don't failyou're not even tryingto get something you never had you haveto do something you never didimagine you're on your deathbedand standing around your deathbedare the ghosts representing yourunfulfilled potentialthe ghost of the ideas you never actedonthe ghost of the talents you didn't useand they're standing around your bedangry
disappointedand upsetthey say we we came to you because youcould have brought us to life they sayand now we have to go to the gravetogetherso i ask you todayhow many ghosts are going to be aroundyour bed when your time comes i just got back from south africa it's abeautiful countrybut there are places there with terribleprivate poverty that need helpand africa is just the tip of theiceberg the middle east needs
your helpjapan needs your help alabama needs yourhelp tennessee needs your help louisiananeeds your help philadelphia needs yourhelpthe world needs a lot and we need itfrom youwe really do we need it from you youngpeople i mean i'm not speaking for therest of us up here but i know i'mgetting a little grayerwe need it from you the young peoplebecause remember thisyou got to get out thereyou got to give it everything
you gotwhether it's your timeyour your your talentyour prayersor your treasureswhat are you going to do with what youhave i'm not talking about how much youhavesome of you are business majors some ofyou are theologians nurses sociologistssome of you have money some of you havepatience some of you have kindness someof you have
loved some of you have thegift of long-suffering whatever it iswhatever your gift iswhat are you going to dowith what you haveall right now here's my last point.
aboutfailuresometimesit's the best wayto figure out where you're goingyour life will never be a straight pathi began at fordham university as apre-med studenti took a course called the cardiac morphogenesis i couldn't read iti couldn't say it i surely couldn't passitso then i decided to go into pre-lawthen journalism and with no academicfocus
my grades took off in their own directioni was a 1.8 gp aand the university very politely suggested that it might be better totake some time offi was 19 years old i was at my low est point and then one day and i remember theexact day march 15 1975 i was helping my mother in her beauty shop my mothe rowned a beauty shop up in mount vernon and there's there was this older woman who was considered one of the elders inthe town and
i didn't know herpersonally but i was looking in themirror and every time i looked in themirror i could see her behind me and shewas staring at meshe just kept looking at me every time ilooked at her she kept giving me the se strange look so she finally took the dryer off her head and saidshe said something i'll never forget she said young boyi have a prophecy a spiritual prophecyshe said you are going to travel the worldand s
peak to millions of people and in the years that follow just asthat woman prophesies i have trave ledthe world and i have spoken to million sof people through my movie smillions who up until this daycouldn't see mewho up till this day i couldn't seewhile i was talking to them and they couldn't see me they could only see themoviethey couldn't see the real mebut i see youth todayand i'm encouraged by
what i sei'm strerang the need by what i see because taking risk is not just aboutgoing for a jobit's also about knowing what you knowand what you don't knowit's about being open to peopleand to ideasthe chances you take the people you meetthe people you lovethe faith that you have that's what's going to define you never be discour age dnever hold backgive everything you gotand when you fall throughout life remember this fall forward you.
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