Graduation Quotes - Page 14

• So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

  Bill Watterson

  Real, World, Wells

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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

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• Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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• The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

  Tim Minchin

  Powerful, Cat, People

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

  Elias Zerhouni

  Dream, Simple, Should Have

  Elias Zerhouni's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 4, 2004.

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• We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

  Bradley Whitford

  Believe, Break, Chains

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• Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Sports

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• I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  Terry Teachout

  People, Luck, Way

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

  Lewis Black

  Secret, Want, Being True

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Golden

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• Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

  Ed Helms

  Running, Opportunity, Self

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• Act as if you are, and you will become such.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspiring, Ifs

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• Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

  Josie Bissett

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

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• You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

  Susan Jeffers

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Susan Jeffers (2017). “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway”, p.39, Random House

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• What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspiring, Sight, Vision

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• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  Yoko Ono

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

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• If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

  Ben Bernanke

  Dirty, Games, Uniforms

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• Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

  Richard Russo

  Be Kind, Tire, Drink

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• Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Hero, Leader, Choices

  Bradley Whitford's Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin-Madison in in Madison, Wisconsin, news.wisc.edu. May 15, 2004.

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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