Whether or not you think you can, you are right.
speech graduation courage
Douglas Smith
DeVry University Commencement 2010, 2010
Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you do want to do.
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Anderson Cooper
Tulane University Commencement 2010, 2010
If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough.
speech graduation courage
Sue Monk Kidd
Scripps College Commencement, 2010, 2010
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
speech graduation courage
Sarah Heidt
Kenyon College Baccalaureate, 2010, 2010
You don't need to change yourself. Ever. You need to come home to yourself. And that changes everything.
speech graduation authenticity
John Jacob Scherer
Roanoke College Commencement 2010, 2010
A career is not something that you put on like a coat. It is something that grows organically around you, step by step, choice by choice, and experience by experience.
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Wade Davis
Colorado College Commencement 2010, 2010
The greatest creative challenge is the struggle to be the architect of your own life. So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.
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Wade Davis
Colorado College Commencement 2010, 2010
The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you.
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Cory Booker
Pitzer College Commencement 2010, 2010
Do something you're not ready to do. In pushing through that discomfort you'll learn a lot more about yourself. You'll learn to do something you didn't think you could do, or you'll learn where your limits are. Either is valuable.
speech graduation courage
Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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Jarl Mohn
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Commencement 2009, 2009
Really when I look back on it, I wouldn't change a thing. I mean, it was so important for me to lose everything because I found out what the most important thing is — to be true to yourself.
speech graduation authenticity
Ellen DeGeneres
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
Do not confuse your net worth with your self-worth.
speech graduation humility
Chris Gardner
UC Berkeley Commencement 2009, 2009