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At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
Sep 29, 2025
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
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.
Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer...
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.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.
Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do.
Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.
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