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Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
Sep 29, 2025
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
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.
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."
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.
It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
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.
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.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
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.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.