Graduation Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

  Cory Booker

  Kindness, Heart, Character

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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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• 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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• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

  Thomas Huxley

  Witty, Educational, Inspiration

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

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• There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Hope, New Year

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

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• When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.

  A. C. Dixon

  Prayer, Organization, Rely Upon

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• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Teaching, Understanding

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• The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

  Norm Crosby

  Funny, Witty, School

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• You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, School, Being The Best

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• Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

  Clive James

  Technology, College, University Degrees

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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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• 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 must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

  Yann Martel

  Inspiring, Cheer Up, Way

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.27, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

  Sanjay Gupta

  Inspirational, Heart, Anticipation

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• People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

  Bill Cosby

  People, Use, Graduates

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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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