Graduation Quotes - Page 15

• Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Sweet, Yield, Yes You Can

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Regret, Way, Tough

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Hands, Stills, Pens

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• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  George Foreman

  School, Sleep, College

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• Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Hurt, Player

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• Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

  James A. Champy

  Ambition, Roots, Achievement

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• Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

  Clive James

  Technology, College, University Degrees

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• Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

  Wally Amos

  Goal, Want, Helping

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• The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Witty, School

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• You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, School, Being The Best

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• Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Doers, Surround Yourself

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• As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Passion, Creativity

  Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

  Bobbi Brown

  Inspiring, Jobs, Smart

  "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.

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• You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Impact

  Remarks by the First Lady in Commencement Address to Dillard University, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 10, 2014.

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• There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Stress, Lying

  "Lean in, speak out". Address to graduating seniors at Harvard’s Senior Class Day ceremony on May 28, 2014 at Tercentenary Theatre, news.harvard.edu.

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• People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

  Janelle Monae

  Inspirational, Funny, Song

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• Put your future in good hands. Your own.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Wise, Confidence, Destiny

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark (2011). “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Preteens Talk: Inspiration and Support for Preteens from Kids Just Like Them”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

  Jon Stewart

  College, Life Is, Complete Life

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Woods

  "12 Inspiring Graduation Speeches by Amazing Women" by Kelly Conniff, time.com. May 18, 2014.

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• You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

  Tony Hillerman

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

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• Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

  Jon Stewart

  Fall, Age, May

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Thinking, Years

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• When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.

  A. C. Dixon

  Prayer, Organization, Rely Upon

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