You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
speech graduation independence
Jennie Cyran
Niagara University Commencement 2007, 2007
The thing you fear most in this life is the thing you will become when you grow old.
speech graduation wisdom
Paul Hamer
Park Tudor School Commencement 2007, 2007
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you to another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door.
speech graduation self discovery
Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006
Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
speech graduation faith
Ann Patchett
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2006, 2006
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become.
speech graduation self discovery
Jodie Foster
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006
Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day like a photograph coming into focus, like a color that becomes more vivid in contrast with its surroundings.
speech graduation self discovery
Jodie Foster
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006
Do not waste it trying to become someone you're not. Use it to become who you are already.
speech graduation authenticity
Jodie Foster
University of Pennsylvania Commencement 2006, 2006
I see the otherness of the other, which appeals to me. In fact, it is the otherness of the other that makes me who I am.
speech graduation empathy
Elie Wiesel
Dartmouth College Commencement 2006, 2006
Live your own life, not the life that others expect of you. The only life worth living is one that is truly your own.
speech graduation authenticity
Michael Ignatieff
Niagara University Commencement 2006, 2006
If you believe in yourself, others will too. And if you have confidence in who you are, there is no end to what you can accomplish.
speech graduation courage
Margaret Spellings
Montgomery College Commencement 2006, 2006
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
faith self discovery wisdom
Steve Jobs
Stanford University Commencement, 2005
The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
speech graduation wisdom
David Foster Wallace
Kenyon College Commencement 2005, 2005