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Sep 17, 2025
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.
Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.