Graduation Quotes - Page 14

• Act as if you are, and you will become such.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspiring, Ifs

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• Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

  Josie Bissett

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

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• What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspiring, Sight, Vision

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Golden

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• Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Sports

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• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  Yoko Ono

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

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• If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

  Ben Bernanke

  Dirty, Games, Uniforms

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• Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

  Elias Zerhouni

  Dream, Simple, Should Have

  Elias Zerhouni's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 4, 2004.

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• Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

  Bradley Whitford

  Hero, Leader, Choices

  Bradley Whitford's Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin-Madison in in Madison, Wisconsin, news.wisc.edu. May 15, 2004.

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• I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  Terry Teachout

  People, Luck, Way

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• 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.

  Ed Helms

  Running, Opportunity, Self

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• We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

  Bradley Whitford

  Believe, Break, Chains

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• Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

  Tim Minchin

  Powerful, Cat, People

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

  Lewis Black

  Secret, Want, Being True

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• Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

  Douglas Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

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• Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

  Richard Russo

  Be Kind, Tire, Drink

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• As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

  Alan Alda

  Becoming, Speed

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• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  Neil Simon

  School, People, Matter

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• Curiosity is the key to creativity.

  Akio Morita

  Creativity, Keys, Curiosity

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• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

  Ernest Holmes

  Choices, Moments, Individual

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.100, Penguin

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• I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

  Lisa Fernandez

  Stronger, Weakness

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• Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

  Margaret Cho

  Growing Up, Trying, Adults

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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  Martha Reeves

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  Ed O'Neill

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

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• I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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