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You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
Sep 30, 2025
If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
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.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?
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.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
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.
You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
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.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.