- "The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
-- Ben Stein - "At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry."
-- Gloria Steinem - "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-- Dr. Seuss - "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go."
-- Dr. Seuss - "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
-- B.F. Skinner - "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
-- Ralph W. Sockman - "I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. "
-- Henry David Thoreau - "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-- Henry David Thoreau - "'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."
-- Christine Todd, NJ governor - "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."
-- Brian Tracy - "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."
-- Garry Trudeau - "You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it."
-- John Updike - "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
-- Shakespeare - "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
-- George Bernard Shaw - "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills - "A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months.' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them.'"
-- Red Skeleton - "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
-- B.F. Skinner - "Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul."
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - "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."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education? "
-- Jehan Sadat
Father,I have knowledge, so will you show me now, how to use it wisely and find a way somehow To make the world I live in a little better place, and make life with its problems a little bit easier to face.
Grant me faith and courage and put purpose in my days, And show me how to serve thee in effective ways.
So my education, my knowledge and my skill may find their true fulfillment as I learn to do thy will.
And may I ever be aware in everything I do, that knowledge comes from learning, and wisdom comes from you.
Amen.
~~ St. Vincent de Paul~~
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