Graduation Quotes - Page 24

• Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

  Michael W. Smith

  Father, Hands, Long

  FaceBook post by Michael W. Smith from Oct 06, 2015

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• Do all the other things, the ambitious things - travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

  George Saunders

  Falling In Love, Kindness, Ambitious

  George Saunders' address to graduates at Syracuse University in New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Sometimes, Commencement Speech

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• Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stress, Heart, Men

  Arianna Huffington's Commencement Address at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, www.smith.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Worry, Too Much

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• And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Emotional, Gps, Doors

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Courageous, Be Courageous, Be Your Best

  "Giffords Urges Graduates at Bard to ‘Be Courageous’" by Vivian Yee, autoglassweek.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Dance

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  Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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  Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Wise, Dream, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Aug 19, 2013

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• I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

  Junior Seau

  Inspirational, Funny, Retirement

  "Seau to meet with Patriots, may end retirement" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. August 18, 2006.

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• A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

  Lee Pace

  Inspirational, Funny, Jobs

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

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• All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

  Patina Miller

  Inspirational, Funny, Jobs

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• We design our lives through the power of choices.

  Richard Bach

  Choices, Design, Power Of Choice

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• Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

  Adam Savage

  Inspirational, Running, Believe

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• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Heart, Action

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Winning, Differences

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• I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

  Ira Glass

  Inspirational, Stress, Iphone

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• I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Inspirational, Long, Sound

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• You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

  Jane Lynch

  Inspirational, Good Day, Sunny Day

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• If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspiring, Believe, Advice

  "Montclair State University Graduation Speech". www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2018.

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• You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Inspiring, Guarantees, Firsts

  "Obama Downplays Campaign's Racial Factor". www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2007.

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• Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

  Jessica Lange

  Inspiring, Heart, Past

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• CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

  Ambrose Bierce

  School, Scandal, Graduates

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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