Everyone gets knocked down. What matters is whether you get back up and keep going.
speech graduation resilience
Hillary Clinton
Yale University Class Day 2018, 2018
Healing our country is going to take what I call radical empathy. This is a moment to reach across divides of race, class, and politics, to try to see the world through the eyes of people very different from ourselves.
speech graduation empathy
Hillary Clinton
Yale University Class Day 2018, 2018
Don't step on anyone's neck to advance your cause. Never sue anyone, and try not to get sued. You will sleep better at night.
speech graduation leadership
Jon B. Fisher
University of San Francisco Commencement 2018, 2018
Talk about your accomplishments. Be humble, but not too humble. Don't be invisible.
speech graduation ambition
Pharrell Williams
New York University Commencement 2017, 2017
There is no humanity without education. There is no education without demand.
speech graduation education
Pharrell Williams
New York University Commencement 2017, 2017
You don't have to be rich to be a humanitarian. You don't have to be rich to help somebody. You don't gotta be famous. You don't even have to be college-educated.
speech graduation humility
Rihanna
Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year Award 2017, 2017
The whole concept of the self-made man or woman is a myth.
speech graduation humility
Arnold Schwarzenegger
University of Houston Commencement 2017, 2017
In the end, we are not going to be remembered for how much we made but for how much we have given. Make sure that it is not about 'me.' That it is about 'we.' Turn the 'me' into 'we,' and I guarantee you that you can change the world.
speech graduation legacy
Arnold Schwarzenegger
University of Houston Commencement 2017, 2017
Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned every day through the lens of humility.
speech graduation humility
Howard Schultz
Arizona State University Commencement 2017, 2017
Don't let anyone tell you that you have to follow a certain path. Especially don't let fear tell you that.
speech graduation courage
Howard Schultz
Arizona State University Commencement 2017, 2017
We are not born with a certain amount of resilience. It is a muscle, and that means we can build it.
speech graduation resilience
Sheryl Sandberg
Virginia Tech Commencement 2017, 2017
Having a closet full of shoes doesn't fill up your life. Living a life of substance can — substance through your service.
speech graduation purpose
Oprah Winfrey
Agnes Scott College Commencement 2017, 2017