You cannot put a full life in a small dream box. What you need is to have a dream box that is as full as the potential you have today.
speech graduation ambition
Elias A. Zerhouni
MIT Commencement 2004, 2004
Never give in to pessimism. Don't know that you can't fly, and you will soar like an eagle. Don't end up regretting what you did not do because you were too lazy or too frightened to soar. Be a bumblebee!
speech graduation perseverance
Earl Bakken
University of Hawaii Commencement 2004, 2004
The future is not fixed, it's fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever.
speech graduation purpose
Bono
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2004, 2004
Aim for the stars. You might not reach them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
speech graduation ambition
Jean Andrews
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.
speech graduation courage
Michael Dell
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
Right at this moment in your life, you have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you. If you have a dream, now is the time to pursue it, before you buy furniture.
speech graduation courage
Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
True opportunity never knocks. I have found that I have to go looking for opportunity — and if I don't find it, I have to create it.
speech graduation ambition
Sumner Redstone
Kellogg School of Management Commencement, 2002, 2002
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
speech graduation courage
Barbara P. Bush
Wake Forest University Commencement 2001, 2001
Not experiencing any failure in life is rarely a sign of perfection. Rather, it's a sign that your goals are not bold enough.
speech graduation failure
Daniel S. Goldin
MIT Commencement 2001, 2001
Believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.
speech graduation courage
Suzan-Lori Parks
Mount Holyoke College Commencement 2001, 2001
Even Terminus, the god of limits, refused to recognize that limits are everything. The open sky above his head testified to his yearning to escape the ground beneath his feet.
speech graduation ambition
Seamus Heaney
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2000, 2000
You don't have to be the biggest — just the best.
speech graduation ambition
Muriel Siebert
Case Western Reserve University Commencement 1998, 1998