Feel life in all its pain and mystery. If you can't feel pain, you won't feel joy, either. There's plenty of time to be comatose, like for the rest of eternity.
speech graduation courage
Doug Marlette
Durham Academy Commencement 2005, 2005
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or your job, or your career. Here is the best piece of advice I can give you: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.
speech graduation gratitude
Jon Stewart
College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004
We need our fear in order to find our love. They go together. Yin and Yang.
speech graduation love
Paul Michael Glaser
Stanford University School of Medicine Commencement 2004, 2004
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, or a parent.
speech graduation relationships
Barbara P. Bush
Wake Forest University Commencement 2001, 2001
The road to success can be much more fun than success itself. Define and enjoy many small successes along the way.
speech graduation success
David Woodle
Penn State University Commencement 2001, 2001
Do one thing at a time. Give each experience all your attention. Try to resist being distracted by other sights and sounds, other thoughts and tasks, and when it is, guide your mind back to what you're doing.
speech graduation discipline
John Walsh
Wheaton College Commencement 2000, 2000
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.
speech graduation balance
Brian Dyson
Georgia Tech Commencement 1996, 1996
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.
speech graduation balance
Brian J. Dyson
Georgia Tech Commencement 1996, 1996
Ambition and satisfaction are at war. If you're ambitious, you aren't satisfied, and if you're satisfied, you aren't ambitious.
speech graduation ambition
Andy Rooney
Colgate University Commencement 1996, 1996
For every five minutes you spend looking into a mirror, spend five times that amount of time looking out at the world. Your happiness has a lot more to do with how you see the world than how the world sees you.
speech graduation authenticity
Callie Khouri
Sweet Briar College Commencement 1994, 1994
Hand and head and heart were made to work together. They must work together. They should be educated together.
speech graduation education
Dwight Eisenhower
Penn State Commencement 1955, 1955