Commencement Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “To make a commencement requires a mental effort.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commencement Effort Graduation
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Completing college is a big deal, and commencements do a good job of making the moment feel big. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech:… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I… — Anders Holm 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
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
Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater. I had a tough time there, left eagerly, and… — Stephanie Ruhle 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 a quality… — Jonathan Roumie 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 us, we… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested,… — Ezra Hall Gillett Copy Share Image
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole matter? Existence… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that… — Joss Whedon 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 boredom, routine,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry,… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and… — Madeleine Albright 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 caught. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
