Graduation Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Dog, Growing Up

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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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• I did get a degree in special education.

  Clay Aiken

  Inspirational, Funny, Special

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• My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

  Jim Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Baseball

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• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  Emma Bonino

  Inspirational, Funny, University Degrees

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• I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

  Frederick Reines

  Inspirational, Funny, Technology

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• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Mother

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• When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

  Gloria Stuart

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

  "Gloria Stuart, actress in 'Titanic,' dies at 100" by Sarah Halzack, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

  Gordon Brown

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

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