The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
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.
Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
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