Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.
speech graduation purpose
Tim Cook
Auburn University Commencement 2010, 2010
Any successful business reflects the combination of ideas joined with an important expression of love through service to other humans.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Carl Schramm
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Commencement 2009, 2009
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short-term gain over lasting achievement is precisely what your generation needs to help end.
speech graduation authenticity
Barack Obama
Arizona State University Commencement 2009, 2009
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
speech graduation empathy
Barack Obama
Arizona State University Commencement 2009, 2009
The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint.
speech graduation nature
Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement 2009, 2009
If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.
speech graduation resilience
Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement 2009, 2009
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.
speech graduation nature
Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement 2009, 2009
The humanities and the arts only do what is much more precious than making money: they make a world that is worth living in.
speech graduation arts
Martha Nussbaum
Connecticut College Commencement 2009, 2009
Do not confuse dreams with wishes. Dreams are where you visualize yourself being successful at what's important to you to accomplish. Dreams build convictions because you work hard to pay the price to make sure that they come true. Wishes are hoping good things will happen to you, but there's no fire in your gut.
speech graduation passion
Dolly Parton
University of Tennessee Commencement 2009, 2009
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way.
speech graduation authenticity
Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
A new vision of the American dream that says achieving balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
speech graduation balance
Chris Gardner
UC Berkeley Commencement 2009, 2009
We push ourselves through the week to get to the weekend. We have become 2/7ths people, only really living 2 days out of the 7 in a week. Things can be different. We can become 7/7ths people. And thereby become whole.
speech graduation balance
Jonathan Youshaei
Deerfield High School Commencement 2009, 2009