Your personal integrity is always in your own hands and can never be taken from you. Only you can give it away.
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David L. Calhoun
Virginia Tech Commencement 2005, 2005
Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
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Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005
If you have to be perfect, if you have to make a hundred on the test, you may not take the test.
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Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005
The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
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David Foster Wallace
Kenyon College Commencement 2005, 2005
You have to love what you do. If you don't love it, don't do it.
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Donald Trump
Wagner College Commencement 2004, 2004
Keep the big picture in mind, but never lose sight of the details. Because if you lose sight of the details, they can send you down.
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Donald Trump
Wagner College Commencement 2004, 2004
To live life at its fullest you have to have the chutzpah to accept challenges.
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Ruth Westheimer
Trinity College Commencement 2004, 2004
If you never try, you'll never succeed, and as bad as failure feels, success feels so much better.
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Ruth Westheimer
Trinity College Commencement 2004, 2004
The biggest mistake you can make is to be complacent and think that you have lots of extra time on your hands. You might, but you also might not.
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Ruth Westheimer
Trinity College Commencement 2004, 2004
They discovered that being 'tough' was not so much about going to war, but about choosing to avoid it.
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Njabulo S. Ndebele
Wesleyan University Commencement 2004, 2004
The world needs a leading nation, or group of nations, that can reassure, inspire hope, and offer fresh perspectives and new directions.
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Njabulo S. Ndebele
Wesleyan University Commencement 2004, 2004
Critical thinking is the key to our past, our present, and our future.
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Anita L. DeFrantz
Connecticut College Commencement 2004, 2004