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MIT Commencement 2016, 2016
"Turn toward the problems you see."
Harvard University Commencement 2018, 2018
"The most radical act we can take is to make a commitment to a particular thing — to a place, to a profession, to a cause, to a community, to a person."
Pitzer College Commencement 2012, 2012
"If you live long enough, every defeat will turn into a victory."
Colorado College Commencement 2010, 2010
"A career is not something that you put on like a coat. It is something that grows organically around you, step by step, choice by choice, and experience by experience."
Merrimack College Commencement 2014, 2014
"You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing the things that will make you great. You cannot succeed without the risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism. You cannot love without the risk of loss. You must take these risks."
Connecticut College Commencement 2004, 2004
"Critical thinking is the key to our past, our present, and our future."
Tulane University Commencement 2009, 2009
"Follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means, you should follow that."
University of Texas at Austin Commencement 2003, 2003
"As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own."
The Juilliard School Commencement 2014, 2014
"One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, right here, right now, is to decide, without apology, to commit to the journey, and not to the outcome."
Bennington College Commencement 2012, 2012
"Raise the rest of your life to meet you. Don't search for defining moments because they will never come. The moments that define you have already happened. And they will already happen again. And it passes so quickly."
Rice University Commencement 2007, 2007
"You make meaning in life through others."
University of Virginia Commencement 2016, 2016
"The last person to hold you accountable is you yourself. If you allow others to tell you your worth, you will have given up on yourself."
Compton College Commencement 2021, 2021
"Very few people realize what power sincerity carries. When that is lacking, power is lacking."
Georgia Tech Commencement 1996, 1996
"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls are made of glass."
"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls — work, family, health, friends, and spirit. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered."
Penn State Commencement 1955, 1955
"Throughout the world, mutual suspicions flourish in ignorance and misunderstanding. They can be dispelled only with knowledge and wisdom."
George Washington University Commencement 2009, 2009
"Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life."
Harvard Divinity School Address 1838, 1838
"Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls."