Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.
Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.
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