Graduation Quotes - Page 22

• Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

  Clare Oliver

  Motivational, Destiny, Self Reliance

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• When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 17, 2013

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• Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspiring, Yogurt, Milk

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", November 12, 2009.

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• I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  May, Want, Today

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• It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hard Work

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• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  David Eddings

  Inspirational, Funny, Degrees

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• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Military

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• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Parker Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Couple

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• I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

  Peter Gallagher

  Inspirational, Funny, Regret

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• Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  College, Men, University

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• The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

  David Brooks

  Inspirational, School, Careers

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• The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

  David Brooks

  Inspirational, Messages, Needs

  Commencement Address at Rice University in Houston, May 14, 2011.

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• And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Caring

  "Desmond Tutu: 'And God Says to All of Us, You Are No Chicken; You Are an Eagle'". Desmond Tutu's commencement address at Brandeis University, www.beliefnet.com. 2000.

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• The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Ego, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.64, Penguin

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Fighting, Good Friend

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

  Jane Lynch

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Life Is

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• My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere.

  Jim Steen

  Inspirational, Two, Imagination

  Jim Steen's commencement address at Kenyon College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 2011.

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• How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

  Jon Stewart

  Inspirational, Moving On, Anxiety

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

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• Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

  Julianna Margulies

  Inspirational, Believe, Hell

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• Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Moving, People

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• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Art, Attitude

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Bird, Looks

  Maria Shriver Graduation Speech - Video & Transcript, gradspeeches.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

  Michael Lewis

  Inspirational, Luck, Outcomes

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Needs, Problem

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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