Best Graduation Quotes

 You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

– JIM CARREY
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 Measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

– ADM. MCRAVEN
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 One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, right here, right now, in this single, solitary, monumental moment in your life – is to decide, without apology, to commit to the journey, and not to the outcome.

– JOYCE DIDONATO
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 I believe we’re shaped by our failures, by our weaknesses and setbacks, at least as much as we are by our successes. In many cases, those failures make ultimate success possible.

– TERRY GROSS
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 When you try hard at everything you do, even if it feels utterly foolish to do so, you’re opening up future doors and possibilities that you might not be seeing in the moment.

– ED HELMS
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 You need a soulmate not a cellmate.

– JAY LENO
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 There’s a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

– MARTIN SCORSESE
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 Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable and make it work for you.

– ALEX SMITH
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 Do what’s uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and place where you would be proud to fail. Fail and pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

– CHARLIE DAY
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 Hold on to that desire for human connection. Don’t let anyone scare you out of it.

– ZADIE SMITH
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 Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living— to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just do stuff, even if you don’t know precisely where it’s going to lead, because you don’t know precisely where it’s going to lead.”

– DANIEL PINK
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 When you believe in yourself, you succeed better. Hours spent questioning, doubting, fearing, can be given over to working, exploring, living .

– JENNIFER LEE
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 Fear is the opposite of love… Fear is what blinds us. Fear is corrosive. Fear makes us hold back. It whispers to us, tells us that we’ll fail. It tells us that our differences are too much to overcome. Fear locks us in place. It starts fights. It causes wars. And fear keeps us from loving.

– JOHN LEGEND
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 The only thing that makes sense and that is completely real is love. Love is the only answer…You are going to have to figure out how to not get distracted by your personal problems, by your success or your lack of success, by your needs, your desires, your suffering, your various interests, and keep your eye on the ball of love even as, inevitably, you juggle all the rest of it.

– ZOKETSU NORMAN FISCHER
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You take it in.

You breathe this rare air.

You feel alive.

You be yourself.

You truly finally always be yourself.

-SHONDA RHIMES
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