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Sep 29, 2025
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
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.
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.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
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.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
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.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
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.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.