You are going out. You will meet suffering. You will meet humiliation. You will meet sorrow. You will meet joy. You will meet success. You will be wanted. You will be unwanted. You will be loved. You will not be loved. All that is part of Jesus' fate.
speech graduation resilience
Mother Teresa
Niagara University Commencement 1982, 1982
I do not believe that the poison clouds of polluted air must inevitably consume our atmosphere. I believe there are answers, and I think I am looking into the faces of several hundred of those answers this morning.
speech graduation nature
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson
University of Virginia Commencement 1973, 1973
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
Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
speech graduation courage
John F. Kennedy
American University Commencement 1963, 1963
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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Winston Churchill
Harrow School Address 1941, 1941
Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days — the greatest days our country has ever lived.
speech graduation resilience
Winston Churchill
Harrow School Address 1941, 1941