{"id":79680,"date":"2022-11-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/6-timeless-graduation-speeches\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:15:19","slug":"graduation-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapraise.com\/blog\/graduation-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Timeless Graduation Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Six Timeless Graduation Speeches<\/h2>\n<h3>Natalie Portman, Harvard University \u2013 2015<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cJust starting out one of your biggest strengths is, not knowing how things are supposed to be. You can compose freely because your mind isn\u2019t cluttered with too many pieces. And you don\u2019t take for granted the way things are.<\/p>\n<p>The only way you know how to do things is your own way. You here will all go on to achieve great things. There is no doubt about that. Each time you set out to do something new, your inexperience can either lead you down a path where you will conform to someone else\u2019s values or you can forge your own path, even if you don\u2019t realize that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>If your reasons are your own, your path, even if it\u2019s a strange and clumsy path, will be wholly yours, and you will control the rewards of what you do by making your internal life fulfilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Natalie Portman Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard Commencement 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDaZu_KEMCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Lebron James, \u201cGraduate Together\u201d \u2013 2020<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cClass of 2020, I know the last thing you want to hear right now is stay home. That\u2019s not my message to you. My message is stay close to home. Maybe not physically, but in every other way possible. Pursue every ambition, go as far as you possibly can dream, and be the first generation to embrace a new responsibility, a responsibility to rebuild your community. Class of 2020, the world has changed. You will determine how we rebuild, and I ask that you make your community your priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LeBron James Message To Senior Class During Graduate Together 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UdtEePhcbVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Steve Jobs, Stanford University \u2013 2005<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYour time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life. Don\u2019t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people\u2019s thinking. Don\u2019t let the noise of others opinions drowned out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Jobs&#039; 2005 Stanford Commencement Address\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UF8uR6Z6KLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Michelle Obama, Tuskegee University \u2013 2015<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAnd you don\u2019t have to be President of the United States to start addressing things like poverty, and education, and lack of opportunity.  Graduates, today \u2014 today, you can mentor a young person and make sure he or she takes the right path.  Today, you can volunteer at an after-school program or food pantry.  Today, you can help your younger cousin fill out her college financial aid form so that she could be sitting in those chairs one day. But just like all those folks who came before us, you\u2019ve got to do something to lay the groundwork for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Lady Michelle Obama Tuskegee University Commencement Address (C-SPAN)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JACTrIRjGos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Jim Carrey, Maharishi International University \u2013 2014<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYour job is not to figure out how it\u2019s going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head. And when the door opens in real life, just walk through it. And don\u2019t worry if you miss your cue because there\u2019s always doors opening. They keep opening. And when I say, \u201cLife doesn\u2019t happen to you, it happens for you.\u201d I really don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true. I\u2019m just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way. You\u2019ll come up with your own style. That\u2019s part of the fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Carrey at MIU: Commencement Address at the 2014 Graduation  (EN, FR, ES, RU, GR,...)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V80-gPkpH6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Tom Hanks, Wright State University \u2013 2020<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere is something about you, all of you, in your upbringing and your background and your conscious memories and your ongoing mysteries, something that has driven you to complete your choice, your courses, and achieve your selected challenges and cross the Rubicon of your time there\u2026you succeeded because of the aid and the love of others, bettering your lives without a doubt, but you have succeeded mostly because you and you alone chose to do so. 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