You get some success. You run into some walls. And it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
speech graduation perseverance
Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011
Passion is the thing that you find in your life that you can care about, that you can cling to, that you can invest yourself in, heart, body, and soul.
speech graduation passion
Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011
The barrier to change is not too little caring. It is too much complexity.
speech graduation empathy
Bill Gates
Harvard University Commencement 2007, 2007
Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity—reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
speech graduation justice
Bill Gates
Harvard University Commencement 2007, 2007