The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
speech graduation passion
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.
speech graduation authenticity
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
The most useful suggestion I can make is that you go on being students for the rest of your lives. Don't move to a mental slum.
speech graduation curiosity
Susan Sontag
Wellesley College Commencement 1983, 1983
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
speech graduation passion
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.
speech graduation authenticity
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
Our country is not a completed work. Over the two centuries since 1776, America has gone from beginning to beginning.
speech graduation history
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson
University of Virginia Commencement 1973, 1973
Do the little things right and the big things will take care of themselves. Don't look for the touchdown run all the time; think about hitting in there tough play after play and then, boom, all of a sudden a big play will present itself.
speech graduation discipline
Joe Paterno
Penn State University Commencement 1973, 1973
Protest without purpose is a perversion of democratic privilege.
speech graduation wisdom
Edward W. Brooke
Wellesley College Commencement 1969, 1969
There is a narrow but distinct line between productive dissent and counter-productive disruption. It is possible to dissent without being destructive.
speech graduation wisdom
Edward W. Brooke
Wellesley College Commencement 1969, 1969
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
speech graduation purpose
Martin Luther King Jr.
Morehouse College Commencement 1959, 1959
Remember that every government service, every offer of government-financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom.
speech graduation independence
Ronald Reagan
Eureka College Commencement 1957, 1957
Hand and head and heart were made to work together. They must work together. They should be educated together.
speech graduation education
Dwight Eisenhower
Penn State Commencement 1955, 1955