There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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.
Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. '
I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
I did get a degree in special education.
The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.
Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.
I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young. ' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
