You should always listen to that God core and care for others, and then you truly will be something special.
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Dolly Parton
University of Tennessee Commencement 2009, 2009
It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all love and faith.
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Fareed Zakaria
Bates College Commencement 2009, 2009
Take a stand for that which is right, and the world may misunderstand you, may criticize you. But you never go alone, for somewhere I read that one with God is a majority.
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Clayborne Carson
Niagara University Commencement 2008, 2008
I had fame and fortune but I was very unhappy. The harder I worked, the more famous I got, the bigger the hole in my heart became.
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Chuck Norris
Liberty University Commencement 2008, 2008
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but the Lord directs his steps.
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Chuck Norris
Liberty University Commencement 2008, 2008
You know you have a Vincentian heart when you see hope where others feel despair, and light where others see only darkness.
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Jennie Cyran
Niagara University Commencement 2007, 2007
Faith and reason are knitted together in the human soul. So don't leave home without either one.
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Tony Snow
Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007
Never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer. They have incredible power. It's as if I've been carried on the shoulders of an entire army. And they had made me weightless.
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Tony Snow
Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007
There is no such thing as failure. What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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Oprah Winfrey
Howard University Commencement 2007, 2007
Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006
If you believe in yourself, others will too. And if you have confidence in who you are, there is no end to what you can accomplish.
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Margaret Spellings
Montgomery College Commencement 2006, 2006
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005