Graduation Quotes - Page 19

• It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Fall, Average

  Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement address at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Worship

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

  Ronnie Lott

  Sports, Football, Perseverance

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• Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Inspiring, Impact, Should Have

  "Gettysburg College Graduation Speech". www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2018.

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• Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, Children, Men

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.51, New Press, The

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• Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

  Cory Booker

  Real, Voice, Bed

  "Most of all, be kind, Newark Mayor Cory Booker tells seniors at Class Day" by Susan Gonzalez, news.yale.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

  Joss Whedon

  Being Yourself, Fun, Appreciate

  Joss Whedon's Commencement Address at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.

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• The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

  David Brooks

  Inspirational, Daily Activities, Dinner With Friends

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• There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."

  John Green

  Inspirational, Dream, Jobs

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• I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

  Peter Dinklage

  Inspirational, Long, Asking

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• Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Opposites, Rushing

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• In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspirational

  "Arianna Huffington Speaks To The Nightingale School’s Senior Class Of 2012", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

  Fred Armisen

  Inspirational, People, Want

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• Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

  Michael Josephson

  Motivational, Good Luck, Pride

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• You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

  Eva Longoria

  Busy, Too Busy

  "Eva Longoria Graduates With Master's Degree In Chicano Studies". www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

  Michael Flatley

  Motivational, Success, Dance

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• Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

  Dick Costolo

  Worry, Next, Lines

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• In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

  Omid Kordestani

  Heart, Decision, Bigs

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• If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

  Leonard Orr

  Discipline, Needs, Willing

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• Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

  Larry Lucchino

  Naps, Fire, Generosity

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• The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

  Neil Gaiman

  Crumbling, Nobody Knows, Knows

  "The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2016.

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• The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Integrity, Giving, Live Your Life

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• You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Inspiring, Witty

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• Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

  Madeleine Albright

  Inspirational, Real, Moving

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• Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.

  Stephen Colbert

  Dream, Princess, Cowboy

  "15 Memorable Celebrity Graduation Speeches" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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