Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing. — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...” — John Green Copy Share Image
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.… — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
Speaking at The Catholic University of America's commencement is such an honor because I will be among those who not only value… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
My daughter went to the school, and it's a very, very progressive and liberal school, and my commencement speech was telling the… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“Commence,” was Monsieur Defarge’s not unreasonable reply, “at the commencement.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. — Robert F. Goheen Copy Share Image
The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
![“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/blaise-pascal-167_children_that-dog-is-mine-said-those-poor-childre_3232472.jpg)
