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Motivation Daily by Motiversity

The Most Valuable 20 Minutes You’ll Spend Today | Best Motivational Speech - Matthew McConaughey

Motivation Daily by Motiversity

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Matthew McConaughey, Academy Award winner, best-selling author of Greenlights, and one of Hollywood’s most iconic voices, delivers powerful life advice that will leave you speechless.


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Every risk you avoid is a chance you’ll never get back. You can spend your life playing it safe, or you can step into the unknown and see what happens when fear meets courage. The truth is, you’ll never know what could’ve been until you take the leap.


Special thanks to Chris Williamson.


Speakers:


Matthew McConaughey


Music:


The World Burns Around Us - Secession Studios

Piano Theme - Secession Studios



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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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0:09.6

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0:11.4

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0:20.3

10.9otiversity.com. 10, 9, 8, leaving children to follow a dream.

0:29.7

Lift off. I grew up only knowing sort of the courage of the persistence. You're resilient.

0:39.3

Endure. Get up. Just yourself off, go. I honestly think I'd written myself a one-way ticket out of Hollywood.

0:43.3

People close to me.

0:45.3

Basically, almost everybody besides my wife was like,

0:49.3

what is your major malfunction, little brother?

0:51.3

By not trying to play the game, there is no risk of failure.

0:54.7

I'm rolling the dice, and I'm sticking with it.

0:56.8

I was feeling like my work was more vital than my life.

0:59.4

What's better?

0:59.9

Eight big risk in life.

1:01.8

Sin once, missed the mark once, but get seven, achieve seven out of eight.

1:05.6

Or take a hundred risk and shoot eight of them.

1:09.1

My hunch is that if there's a god, he's saying go for the hundred and get eight

1:12.7

rather than eight and get seven. If you're not taking enough risk to sin or miss the mark,

1:20.3

which is what sin means to fail. What are you doing? Don't go back with even money. Come back with

1:26.8

the safe beds. If you get up and get the courage to keep on going every time you get up and dust yourself off, you make the same mistakes each time around because you never backed up to have what I've now learned. I'm still learning is the courage to go. No, I'm going to let some people pass me in the race right now because I'm going to look at why I keep stepping in that damn same pothole, twist my ankle, the same spot. Sacrifice a plastic ring today for a gold crown tomorrow. Sacrifice something today for more freedom tomorrow. Sacrifice something today for a possible healthier future for you kids. Well, if you don't have the hope or believe in something, you're going to end up, you're definitely got to remain where you are. And if you have hope and faith in something, I'm not saying it's 100% get out of jail, you're going to absolutely get out, but you've got the best chance to. The script flipped on me five years ago. I felt like I was going through the motions more in my life, but I was really getting major life experiences and through my work.

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