When you get knocked down — which is plenty often — you get right up in a hurry, just as quickly as you can.
speech graduation resilience
Woody Hayes
Ohio State University Commencement 1986, 1986
You can pay back only seldom. But you can always pay forward, and you must pay forward.
speech graduation legacy
Woody Hayes
Ohio State University Commencement 1986, 1986
You can outwork anybody. Try it, and you will find out that you can do it.
speech graduation discipline
Woody Hayes
Ohio State University Commencement 1986, 1986
When you get knocked down — which is plenty often — you get right up in a hurry. Then you get your strength in the huddle. You get it by going back and running that play together with your teammates. That 'together' is the thing that gives you the buildup to get ready to go again.
speech graduation resilience
Woody Hayes
Ohio State University Commencement 1986, 1986
Don't send people to do it. Meet them there and help them do it, and you will be amazed how it works.
speech graduation leadership
Woody Hayes
Ohio State University Commencement 1986, 1986
We don't need to accept this state of affairs and all the other increasingly imposed limitations of our society without a fight.
speech graduation independence
Meredith Monk
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 1985, 1985
In a society that systematically limits feelings, I hope you will not be afraid to fight for them.
speech graduation authenticity
Meredith Monk
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 1985, 1985
Chaos is often the first step in the creative process. Don't be afraid of not knowing. The act of searching is as important as the act of finding.
speech graduation creativity
Meredith Monk
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 1985, 1985
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
speech graduation passion
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises. I'm sure it comes up in every field of endeavor and every life.
speech graduation authenticity
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.
speech graduation authenticity
Meryl Streep
Vassar College Commencement 1983, 1983
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
speech graduation justice
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mills College Commencement 1983, 1983