Graduation Quotes - Page 6

• College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

  Ruby Wax

  Inspirational, Funny, Athlete

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• It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Sweet, Past, Progress

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• Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Inspirational, Funny, Teacher

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• I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Requirements

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• Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, College, People

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Mountain, Growing

  George Saunders' Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

  Adam Savage

  Inspirational, Over You, Crap

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• I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Education, Inspire

  Denzel Washington's Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almanac.upenn.edu. May 16, 2011.

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• The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Struggle

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Numbers, Games, Sound

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• I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.” I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Dad, Nice

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

  Tony Snow

  Prayer, People, Underestimate

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• Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

  Mathew Staver

  Inspirational, Funny, Gratitude

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• Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

  Herb Ritts

  Inspirational, Funny, Degrees

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• This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Change, Resistance

  "Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation: ‘You Just Have To Make Your Mother And Father Proud’". Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Self Esteem, Avid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

  Michelle Obama

  Positive, Hope, Women

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• Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Dirty, White

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". Conan O'Brien's Commencement Speech at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, on Class Day, content.time.com. 2000.

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• After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

  Rachel Maddow

  Tonight, Graduates, Happens

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• There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Business, Moving

  Commencement address in Harvard, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Fall, Numbers, Long

  "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Inspirational, Funny, Boys

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• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Happy

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.79, Harper Collins

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• The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Funny, College

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• The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

  Carly Fiorina

  Memorable, Truth Is, Stanford

  "Words of Wisdom / This year's commencement speakers offer career advice for tough days ahead" by Vanessa Hua, www.sfgate.com. June 23, 2001.

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