Graduation Quotes - Page 20

• There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Teacher

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Perseverance, Morning

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, Courageous, Tomorrow

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• From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Art, Views

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Education, Teacher

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Education, Wisdom

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Basketball

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Latin, Cheer Up, Grind

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

  T. H. White

  Self, Essence, Reliance

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.40, Penguin

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• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Inspiring, Courage

  "Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

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• My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere.

  Jim Steen

  Inspirational, Two, Imagination

  Jim Steen's commencement address at Kenyon College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 2011.

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• How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Inspirational, Moving On, Anxiety

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

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• Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Moving, People

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• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Art, Attitude

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Bird, Looks

  Maria Shriver Graduation Speech - Video & Transcript, gradspeeches.com. May 11, 2012.

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• When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Needs, Problem

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

  Roger Goodell

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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• What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, School, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Loneliness

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

  Jane Lynch

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Life Is

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