Quotes Collection

"This act of choosing — the stories we tell versus the stories we leave out — will reverberate across the rest of your life."

"The main difference for you, between life yesterday and life tomorrow, is you can go to the bathroom whenever you want. It's a pretty big responsibility, but you've earned it."

"Don't be afraid of fear. Throw caution to the winds, look fear straight-away in its ugly face, and barge forward. And when you get past it, turn around and give it a good swift kick in the ass."

"I believe that if people are not laughing at your ambitions and your goals, then your dreams are not big enough."

"We don't need to accept this state of affairs and all the other increasingly imposed limitations of our society without a fight."

"There is nothing, believe me, more satisfying, more gratifying than true adulthood. The adulthood that is the span of life before you. The process of becoming one is not inevitable. Its achievement is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard-won glory."

"I wish someone had told me at my own commencement that the one and only requirement for graduation was that I had to emerge out of the closed, cordoned-off space of my own head. I had to learn to listen."

"Work hard, like, every waking hour. That's the thing I would say, particularly if you're starting a company."

"Nobody knows what they're doing. Nobody does. Everyone's winging it out there. Some people are just better at pretending to be confident."

"In the profession of the law, it's not how much you make that matters, but whether you make a difference."

"What most of us recognized in South Africa, at the very last moment, was just how much we needed one another. We realized that violent confrontation promised only destruction and a long life of shared misery."

"I have three words for you. Persistence, persistence... persistence."

"When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense. You aren't just following dreams, you're reaching for your destiny."

"When people show unhidden joy in their accomplishments and good fortune and blessings, witnessing it feels almost intimate, and that is why all graduations, for all the pomp and ceremony and brass bands, all of them are so personally moving every year."

"The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience."

"Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations."

"When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get — it's who you become."

"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique."