Graduation Quotes - Page 18

• Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Talent, Shows

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Jealousy, Hilarious

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• Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Discipline, Way

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Happiness, Hope, Laughter

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Fighting, Tables

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Birthday, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 23, 2011

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• Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Country, Doctors

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• Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Educational, Memorable, Willing To Learn

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

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• You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  "How To Ask For What You Want In Life" by Dekera Greene Rodriguez, www.askmen.com.

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• The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

  Jacques Barzun

  Education, Exercise, Men

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• I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  David Brooks

  Emotional, Heads Or Tails, Mind

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• Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Education, Ideas

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches: Best of All Time" by Meena Jang, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 8, 2015.

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• The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Creativity, True Power

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Nov 17, 2014

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• Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Destiny, Hands

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.87, Crown/Archetype

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• When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

  Tig Notaro

  Thinking, Moments, Happens

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• Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Laughing, Able

  "Louis C.K. on the Importance of Acting Like an Asshole". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. June 29, 2010.

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• The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

  Amy Poehler

  Funny Inspirational, Swings, Chance

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• Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Laughing, Too Short

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

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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

  Larry Page

  Dream, Dog, Crazy

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• I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Memorable, Differences

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• As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

  Barack Obama

  America, Together, Citizens

  Commencement Address at Ohio State University, abcnewsradioonline.com. May 5, 2013.

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