True success is measured in how you play the game of life — that you honor those that have come before you by playing the game with great integrity, with honor and class.
speech graduation legacy
Mike Tomlin
St. Vincent College Commencement 2008, 2008
It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the dreams will come to you.
speech graduation purpose
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University 'The Last Lecture' 2007, 2007
Memorials are the way we make promises to the future about the past.
speech graduation legacy
Alice Greenwald
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2007, 2007
If we stop remembering, we stop being.
speech graduation legacy
Alice Greenwald
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2007, 2007
The journey is never over until you share what you have learned with others.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Ballard
Connecticut College Commencement 2007, 2007
The only things that are sure to endure are the artifacts of love. So go out and build as many as you can.
speech graduation love
Tony Snow
Catholic University of America Commencement, 2007, 2007
The best commencement speech I can give you is: We broke it. But here's the good news — you fix it, and it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun.
speech graduation responsibility
Jon Stewart
College of William & Mary Commencement 2004, 2004
Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.
speech graduation courage
Bradley Whitford
University of Wisconsin-Madison 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
A people is defined and unified not by blood but by shared memory.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999
Though you win a Nobel Prize in physics and literature, in a sense it is more important that you keep physics and literature alive, to be passed on to the generations that follow you.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999
They are not powerless, the dead.
speech graduation legacy
Robert Pinsky
Stanford University Commencement 1999, 1999