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Northeastern University Commencement 2012, 2012
"It ain't where you start in life, it's where you end up and what you did along the way."
Eureka College Commencement 1957, 1957
"Those who discovered and pioneered this land had to have rare qualities of courage and imagination, nor did these qualities stop there. Even the modern-day immigrants have been possessed of courage beyond that of their neighbors — the courage to tear up centuries-old roots and leave their homelands, to come to this land where even the language was strange."
Kellogg School of Management Commencement, 2002, 2002
"True opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity — and if I don't find it, I have to create it."
Syracuse University Commencement 2014, 2014
"What gnaws at you? And what will you do about it?"
Dartmouth College Commencement 2014, 2014
"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change."
Stanford University Commencement 2010, 2010
"If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress, we have to drive it."
Douglass College Commencement 1977, 1977
"You cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education: you will do much better to think of being here to claim one."
Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award 2017, 2017
"When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials... 'you can give 25 cents, save a child's life.' And I would think to myself, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save all the kids in Africa. And I would say to myself, 'when I grow up, when I can get rich, I'mma save kids all over the world.'"
MIT Commencement 2023, 2023
"Pick what you think is the best path and just move forward."
Niagara University Commencement 2005, 2005
"Wealth isn't measured in bling and Bentleys. It's measured in the richness of the human spirit. It's measured not in what we take from this world, but what we give to it."
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2009, 2009
"Not knowing is just as important, if not more important, because you do not know yet what can't be done."
Colgate University Commencement 1996, 1996
"Ambition and satisfaction are at war. If you're ambitious, you aren't satisfied, and if you're satisfied, you aren't ambitious."
Brigham Young University Commencement 1998, 1998
"The positions I am about to describe are not only exalted and high paying; they also require little or no work, experience, training or knowledge. Thus they are exceptionally well suited to graduating seniors."
Hofstra University Commencement 2011, 2011
"We're all going to get cancelled one day. So do the show you want to do."
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
Tulane University Commencement 2015, 2015
"Say Yes. Say Yes, And… and create your own destiny."
Niagara University Commencement 2000, 2000
"To whom much is given, much is expected."
Harvard Graduate School of Education Commencement 2016, 2016
"An answer can only be as good as the question asked."