Your great education is what got you the interview, but it is who you truly are that will get you the job.
speech graduation authenticity
Angela Ahrendts
Ball State University Commencement 2008, 2008
The first five minutes of the game does not decide the outcome. It never does.
speech graduation perseverance
Mike Tomlin
Saint Vincent College Commencement 2008, 2008
You will quickly find that true success is measured in how you play the game of life.
speech graduation success
Mike Tomlin
Saint Vincent College Commencement 2008, 2008
I mandate it. That you continue to dream the wild dreams that you dreamed when you were young.
speech graduation ambition
Mike Tomlin
Saint Vincent College Commencement 2008, 2008
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
speech graduation failure
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
We do not need magic to transform our 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
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
speech graduation wisdom
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
Take a stand for that which is right, and the world may misunderstand you, may criticize you. But you never go alone, for somewhere I read that one with God is a majority.
speech graduation courage
Clayborne Carson
Niagara University Commencement 2008, 2008
Who am I, really? All of us have easy public answers to the identity question. But we also know, deep inside, that these are just the superficial, transitory expressions of who we are.
speech graduation self discovery
Clayborne Carson
Niagara University Commencement 2008, 2008
Find ways to make work seem like play, or perhaps make play into something that you get paid to do.
speech graduation passion
Clayborne Carson
Niagara University Commencement 2008, 2008
The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.
speech graduation failure
Chuck Norris
Liberty University Commencement 2008, 2008
I had fame and fortune but I was very unhappy. The harder I worked, the more famous I got, the bigger the hole in my heart became.
speech graduation authenticity
Chuck Norris
Liberty University Commencement 2008, 2008