Quotes About Commencement

Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second.

As Steve Jobs said in his now legendary commencement address at Stanford, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." There

We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement--each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct.

A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.

A good beginning makes a good end.

I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

The only choice we have is to begin. And the only place to begin is where we are. Simply begin. But begin.

the best time to start was last year. The second best time to start is right now.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

THE "GAMES" BEGIN

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Literally working is easier than thinking on how, when, where to start.

Everyone starts from a raw stage at some point of time.