Graduation Speech Quotes

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.

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.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

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.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.

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.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.