Graduation Quotes - Page 17

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

  Ronnie Lott

  Sports, Football, Perseverance

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• That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Life, Smart, Future

  Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.

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• Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

  Jon Stewart

  Fall, Age, May

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

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• Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Thinking, Years

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• We live by what we believe not but what we see.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Inspirational, Believe, Live By

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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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• 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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