Graduation Quotes - Page 11

• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Dumb, Screw Ups, Combination

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Death, Best Job

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Never give in, never give in, never give in.

  Winston Churchill

  Perseverance, Determination, Health

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

  Jim Carrey

  Path, Commencement, Convocation

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

  Silas House

  Libertarian, Just Being, Sometimes

  Silas House (2010). “Eli the Good”, p.96, Candlewick Press

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• Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Children, Libertarian

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• Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

  Nora Ephron

  Education, Inspire, Dresses

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 24, 2016

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• A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

  Russell Green

  Work, Wealth, Achieve

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• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Two, Firsts

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Weekend

  "Bloody Wonderful: Goodbye, Anita Roddick" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2007.

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspiring, Giving, Challenges

  "36 Inspiring Graduation Speeches From Your Fave Celebs" by Kristin Koch, www.seventeen.com. June 11, 2018.

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• What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

  Jeff Bezos

  Kindness, Differences, Choices

  Jeff Bezos' Commencement Address at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

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• You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspiring, Success, Mother

  "33 Inspiring Graduation Speeches From Your Fave Celebs". Seventeen magazine, Slide 25, www.seventeen.com. May 11, 2018.

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Integrity, Passion, Mean

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• Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Hate, Yoga

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.119, Beacon Press

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  Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

  Tim Duncan

  Inspirational, Funny, Girlfriend

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