FLY - Motivational video | Inspirational video speech | Priyanka Chopra | Kangana Ranaut | Women

[0:05]It's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Your birth as a girl child is not celebrated. If it's not a tragedy, to a family, it's definitely a setback. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to be a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse. So when you start from a point like that it's very hard to find pride in your own self, confidence in your own being and in your own actions. That mentality has to change. As Mother Teresa once told me, "We had only four boys and all have been adopted. These are only the girls." She smiled about it. She said, "These are the lucky ones. They didn't end up in dustbins. They ended up with a future." I have been blessed to be born in a family who raised me just as a human being. They didn't differentiate between a girl and a boy. My mom had me when she was 16, and she worked 4 jobs and completely dedicated her life into making mine better. So, to me, she is the definition of a strong woman. We were four girls and no boys. My father defied his own grandfather almost to the point of disinheritance because he decided to educate all four of us. He sent us to one of the best schools in the city. Thank you to my father for not clipping my wings and for letting me fly.

[1:50]Thank you to my mother for inspiring me to be patient, to believe in myself and be brave.

[2:00]You are a lot more than people think you are and you want to prove that and you want to find yourself. It's a lot more important for women to accept themselves as opposed to others accepting them. Others' opinion of you will always shift. Their perspective will keep changing. So, as a woman, we don't have to hope that we get our due. We need to get up and get it ourselves.

[2:26]I wanted to be an actress, and I had a casting director tell me that I wasn't strong enough to carry my own show. I'm sure all of you have been told that you don't have what it takes and that you may not be good enough and you don't have enough people supporting you. But deep down it's all you want to do. You want to be a part of something great. You want to make something great. If I am doing something, I should do it because I love it and I believe I can do it. The most important thing is to always trust in myself. I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive and I still had a daughter whom I adored and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. So, rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame. But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there and that will be the greatest feeling in the world. The most beautiful thing about having dreams is that it's in your hands how big your dreams become. No one can tell you that your dream is too small or your dream cannot come true or because your dream cannot be allowed because you are a girl, because you are a boy, because you look a certain way or because you come from a certain place.

[4:26]Don't be afraid to dream guys because they do come true. They really do. Whatever you do, throw yourself into it. Throw your head, heart and hands into it. I look at my job not as a job. I look at it as a calling, as a passion. And I don't care about the hours, I don't care about the hardship because to me everything is a joy. So whatever you do, please look upon it as a calling, as a passion. Not as a job, not as something temporary. Please help others rise. Greatness comes not from a position but from helping build the future. All of us in positions of power have an obligation to pull others up.

[5:08]I'm just a committed and even stubborn person who wants to see every child getting quality education, who wants to see women having equal rights and who wants peace in every corner of the world. Age of Aquarius is when women will rise. It is a time when we will come to the awareness of the female strength. There is a reason why the law of nature says to you when you become pregnant, you will not know, you shouldn't if it's a girl or a boy. When we kill the nurturer, we create an imbalance. An imbalance that we will be so sorry in generations to have done because life will stop to exist the way we see it. The world will change on it's own. You change one life. You change one thought. You tell one father today truly you are a blessed man because not only do you have a girl, you have the womb of the universe. She will then nurture life beyond.