Graduation Speech: Always Look On The Bright Side of Life :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

I run been chosen today to come before you and give some rowing of encouragement to the graduating class because I am seen as an example of peerless who has succeeded in school. And yet, I am by no esteems the scarce person in our class who has succeeded. Woody Allen once said, Success is 80 part showing up and since all of you have shown up here(predicate) today and at school for the last 12 years, you all argon most of the way there. So what makes up the remaining 20 percent? Not getting all As on your tests, or sacking to state or winning first prize in a contest. It is merely trying. If you try your best, you have already succeeded, regardless of where you end up. The globe is a fickle place and too often the most deserving, unvoicedest-working peck are passed over in favor of the ones who obtain the best-looking accomplishments. Thus, ones measure of success should be based not on how considerably you do by societys standards, but on how hard you worked and how much you got out of it. As Tennyson once said, How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rusty unburnishd, not to shine in use But rather, we should be, as he said, like the spirit yearning in desire To follow association like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of homo thought ... To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Just because we are graduating today does not mean we now know everything rather, it is just the opposite. As we go out into the land we leave continue to grow, to learn, to mature. Indeed, this is perhaps one of the greatest qualities of mankind, that we can die our minds to better understand. It is a rare and important gift that should not be abused through neglect or halfhearted attention. Never preventive trying and never stop learning because the moment you do, you begin to die. erstwhile you leave here tonight, you leave alone no longer be seniors. You will be adults, set adrift with the entire world at your disposal. It will be up to you, an d you alone, to decide your futures. Today more than ever, as we stand at the dawn of the new millennium, you have the opportunity to become something great, to contact wondrous deeds.