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Barack Obama

Virtual Commencement Address 2020, Rutgers University Commencement 2016, Morehouse College Commencement 2013, University of Michigan Commencement 2010, Arizona State University Commencement 2009, 2009–2020

"The challenges we face go well beyond a virus, and the old normal wasn't good enough."

18 citations
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Michelle Obama

City College of New York Commencement 2016, Dillard University Commencement 2014, Spelman College Commencement 2011, 2011–2016

"Our greatness has never, ever come from sitting back and feeling entitled to what we have. It's never come from folks who climb the ladder of success, or who happen to be born near the top and then pull that ladder up after themselves. No, our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted."

10 citations
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Alexis Ohanian

Carthage College Commencement 2014, 2014

"It's okay to not really know what you're doing, and just trust your gut. Make the best judgment you can. There's not going to be a syllabus assigned to you."

2 citations
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Michael Oren

Brandeis University Commencement 2010, 2010

"In dreams begin responsibility."

3 citations
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Dr. Mehmet Oz

West Chester University Commencement 2011, 2011

"Whatever you choose to do, do it with a childlike passion."

3 citations
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Larry Page

University of Michigan Commencement 2009, 2009

"Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!"

3 citations
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Suzan-Lori Parks

Mount Holyoke College Commencement 2001, 2001

"Believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you."

3 citations
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Dolly Parton

University of Tennessee 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."

3 citations
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Ann Patchett

Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006

"Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you to another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door."

3 citations
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Joe Paterno

Penn State University Commencement 1973, 1973

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but it won't taste good."

3 citations
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James Patterson

University of Florida Commencement 2013, 2013

"Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will never be the same."

4 citations
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Randy Pausch

Carnegie Mellon University Commencement 2008, Carnegie Mellon University 'The Last Lecture' 2007, 2007–2008

"We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully."

10 citations
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Sundar Pichai

Dear Class of 2020 Virtual Commencement, 2020

"It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one. It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next."

3 citations
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Robert Pinsky

Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999

"A people is defined and unified not by blood but by shared memory."

3 citations
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Joe Plumeri

William & Mary Commencement 2011, 2011

"Go play in traffic, and find out what's possible. You won't make a difference by sitting on the sidelines."

3 citations
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Amy Poehler

Harvard University Class Day 2011, Harvard College Class Day 2011, 2011

"You can't do it alone. As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own."

7 citations
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Maria Popova

University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Commencement 2016, 2016

"In its passivity and resignation, cynicism is a hardening, a calcification of the soul. Hope is a stretching of its ligaments, a limber reach for something greater."

3 citations
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Natalie Portman

Harvard Senior Class Day 2015, Harvard University Commencement 2015, 2015

"Achievement is wonderful when you know why you're doing it, and when you don't know, it can be a terrible trap."

7 citations