Bring your own vision to your work and look for ways you can give something to the world. Inspire people. Make a difference.
speech graduation purpose
Tom Brinck
Art Institute of California Commencement 2011, 2011
The essence of leadership, when all is said and done, is the personal assumption of the moral duty to be proactive in building our future.
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Sergio Marchionne
University of Toledo Commencement 2011, 2011
Opportunity can be manufactured. You can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action, but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Biz Stone
Babson College Commencement 2011, 2011
There is compound interest in altruism — the earlier you get started helping others, the more impact you will have over time.
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Biz Stone
Babson College Commencement 2011, 2011
You can't do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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Amy Poehler
Harvard College Class Day 2011, 2011
You get some success. You run into some walls. And it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
speech graduation perseverance
Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011
Passion is the thing that you find in your life that you can care about, that you can cling to, that you can invest yourself in, heart, body, and soul.
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Steve Ballmer
University of Southern California Commencement, 2011, 2011
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
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Conan O'Brien
Dartmouth College Commencement 2011, 2011
It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
speech graduation resilience
Chris Waddell
Middlebury College Commencement 2011, 2011
Failure is not the opposite of success, it's an integral part of success.
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Arianna Huffington
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2011, 2011
The world you live in has three problems: it is too unstable, it is too unequal, and it is completely unsustainable.
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Bill Clinton
Yale University Class Day 2010, 2010
I have always believed that cynicism and pessimism were cop-outs — they're an excuse to take a dive. They're self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Bill Clinton
Yale University Class Day 2010, 2010