Put God First Denzel Washington Motivational Inspiring Commencement Speech with BIG subtitles
let me take this moment to
wholeheartedly congratulate each and
every one of you today you graduated you
did it you made it
congratulations to you and you did it
all by yourselves nobody helped you
yeah that’s Dutch that’s what you know
that’s what I thought when I was when I
was young I starting to really make it
as an actor I came in I talked to my
mother I said ma did you think that this
was gonna happen I’d be so big and I’ll
be able to take care of everybody and I
didn’t do this and I can do that and I
can she said boy stop it right there
stop it right there stop it right there
he said if you only knew how many people
that have been praying for you
how many prayer groups she put together
how many crack laws she gave me how many
times she splashed me with holy water
save my sorry behind that she said it
she said oh you did it by yourself I
tell you what you can do by yourself you
can go outside get a mop and a bucket
and wash them windows you can do that by
yourself
superstar so I’m saying that to say I
want to congratulate all the parents and
friends and family and aunties and
uncles and grandmothers and grandfathers
and teachers and friends and and enemies
it’s all the people that helped you to
get where you are today congratulations
to you all
i’ma tell about two three stories I’m
gonna keep it real short
I remember my graduation speaker got up
to here went on forever blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah so I’m
gonna keep it short no one 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 40 years ago March 27th 1975
it was 40 years ago
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 a beauty shop now what they call it
yeah I’ll sit in the beauty parlor 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
look at me in the eye I don’t know who
she was and I said you know she said
somebody give me a pen give me a pen so
I have a prophecy March 27 1975 she said
boy you were gonna travel the world and
speak to millions of people now mind you
I flunked out of college I’m thinking
about joining the army I didn’t know
what I was gonna do and she’s telling me
I’m gonna 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 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 fail big
today’s the beginning of the rest of
your life and it can be it 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 a know-all 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 are 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 text tweet Tork 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 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
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 the Egyptians
tried it they got robbed that’s all they
got you can’t take it with you 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 well
one or two things but nothing’s better
than that not not jewelry not big house
I have not the cars but the it’s the joy
that’s where the joy is in helping
others that’s where the success is in
helping others finally
I pray that you put your slippers it’s
way under the bed tonight so that when
you wake up in the morning you have to
get on your knees to reach them and
whine 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 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 before hand already to indicate
that it’s yours
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
thank you
you