Some dreams are bad dreams. All these people dream their dreams and work hard and achieve their dreams. Personal triumphs are overrated.
speech graduation purpose
Rachel Maddow
Smith College Commencement 2010, 2010
Great necessities call out great virtues. We live in a time of great necessities — a time when we cannot avoid the burdens of global leadership.
speech graduation courage
Robert M. Gates
University of Georgia Commencement 2009, 2009
If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.
speech graduation responsibility
Robert M. Gates
University of Georgia Commencement 2009, 2009
You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
speech graduation pay it forward
Arnold Schwarzenegger
University of Southern California Commencement 2009, 2009
Recognize that you are the change you seek. You are the great agents of change in the world. You can adapt, you can embrace, you can respond in ways that will better your life and better the life of your society. You cannot ignore them. You cannot fight them. But what you can do is adapt and make the world a better place.
speech graduation growth
Fareed Zakaria
Bates College Commencement 2009, 2009
You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring. The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint.
speech graduation purpose
Paul Hawken
University of Portland Commencement, 2009, 2009
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
speech graduation empathy
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
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
Memorials are the way we make promises to the future about the past.
speech graduation legacy
Alice Greenwald
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2007, 2007
The barrier to change is not too little caring. It is too much complexity.
speech graduation empathy
Bill Gates
Harvard University Commencement 2007, 2007
From those to whom much is given, much is expected.
speech graduation responsibility
Bill Gates
Harvard University Commencement 2007, 2007
A lot of people have worked awfully hard to help give you the education of a lifetime. Now it's up to you to decide what to do with it.
speech graduation gratitude
John Doerr
Rice University Commencement 2007, 2007