Graduation Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  George Foreman

  School, Sleep, College

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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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• Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Hurt, Player

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• Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

  James A. Champy

  Ambition, Roots, Achievement

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• Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

  Wally Amos

  Goal, Want, Helping

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• Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Sweet, Yield, Yes You Can

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Regret, Way, Tough

  Charles R. Swindoll (2010). “Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Doers, Surround Yourself

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• Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational, Woods

  "12 Inspiring Graduation Speeches by Amazing Women" by Kelly Conniff, time.com. May 18, 2014.

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