Commencement Address Quotes

#1. Though I may not ... be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience. - Author: Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact. - Author: Lorii Myers

#3. In his 1978 Harvard commencement address, Solzhenitsyn listed a litany of woes facing the West: the loss of courage and will, the addiction to comfort, the abuse of freedom, the capitulation of intellectuals to fashionable ideas, the attitude of appeasement with evil. - Author: Charles W. Colson

#4. This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume. - Author: David Greenspan

#5. Poetry and I fit together.
I can't imagine being without it ...
It is food and drink, it is all seasons,
it is the stuff of all existence. - Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins

#6. Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880 ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'. - Author: Sarah Vowell

#7. I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for. - Author: John Waters

#8. Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself. - Author: John S. Mosby

#9. They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance. - Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

#10. If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better. - Author: Joss Whedon

#11. And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#12. There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict, - Author: Umberto Eco

#13. If one day I was taken away ... would you wait for me to come back?"
Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?"
"Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else."
"No."
I swallowed and blinked back tears.
"I'd go after you," he said. - Author: Kelly Parra

#14. The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)] - Author: Neil Gaiman

#15. If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
[Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963] - Author: John F. Kennedy

#16. One time Gifford had asked Mona: "What's the difference between men and women?" Mona had said: "Men don't know what can happen. They're happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time. - Author: Anne Rice

#17. My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars. - Author: Elon Musk

#18. What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept "enemy" the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost? - Author: John Jeremiah Sullivan

#19. The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it. - Author: Katharine Cornell