Game of Loans: 2017 Celebrity Commencement Speeches

Interest is coming...let 2017’s motivational commencement speeches melt away your post-college stresses.

Yale's President Peter Salovey: Emulate the fox

“As inspired as you might be by a single idea or way of looking at the world, I suggest that you entertain many different ways of thinking and consider various points of view,” Salovey said at the annual Opening Assembly in Woolsey Hall. “Try them all on. See what fits you best.”

09-25
06:03

APPLE CEO Tim Cook at MIT : “How will you serve humanity?”

“when you keep people at the center of what you do, it can have enormous impact. … That responsibility is immense, but so is the opportunity. … As you go forward today, use your minds and hands — and hearts — to build something bigger than yourselves.”

06-11
25:17

Theo Epstein at Yale College Class Day

When things go really, really wrong — and then when it rains on top of everything else — I ask you to choose to keep your heads up and come together, to connect, and to rally around one another, especially those who need it the most. It is likely to uplift you all.

06-04
26:33

Robert de Niro at Brown University

“You are graduating into a tragic, dumbass comedy. My advice is to lock the [university’s] Van Wickle Gates and stay here. “But if you do leave, work for the change. Work to stop the insanity. Start now so the class of 2018 will graduate into a better world.”

06-01
01:10

Maz Jobrani at University of California Berkeley

“Today, I stand in front of you giving the commencement speech at one of the top universities in America, if not the world,” said Jobrani, whose family fled Iran during that country’s 1978 revolution. “I am the American dream.”

06-01
14:28

James Mattis at West Point

"That free men and women will volunteer to fight, ethically and fiercely, to defend our experiment that you and I call, simply, 'America.”

06-01
15:00

Christiane Amanpour at Northeastern University

“Light comes from truth, which leads to virtue.”

06-01
23:04

Kumail Nanjiani at Grinnell College

“Nobody is paying attention to your failure. The world is full of people failing. People are failing all around you. Failure is boring. Your failure will not be so spectacular that people will write articles about your failure or even remember your failure.”

06-01
19:36

Bernie Sanders at Brooklyn College

The only rational choice we have, the only real response we can make is to stand up and to fight back, reclaim American democracy, and create a government that works for all of us, not just the one percent

06-01
16:58

Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman at Carnegie Mellon

Be the generation that embodies real tolerance, genuine inquiry and authentic open-mindedness.

06-01
21:00

Joe Biden: Class Day Speech at Harvard Commencement

You’re the most engaged, tolerant, talented generation in our history. But none of that will matter if you don’t get engaged in the public affairs of this nation.

06-01
46:49

Oprah Winfrey at The Skidmore College

There is nothing more powerful than you using your personality to serve the calling of yourself.

06-01
10:00

Kai-Fu Lee at Columbia University

“10 years can do a lot, but the next 10 will do much much more than the last 10. Why? Because, the next decade will be the Age of Artificial Intelligence, or AI.”

05-31
24:08

Octavia Spencer at Kent State University

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

05-31
25:05

Hillary Clinton at Wellesley College

“ I believe with all my heart that the future of America—indeed, the future of the world—depends on brave, thoughtful people like you insisting on truth and integrity, right now, every day. ”

05-31
31:58

President Donald Trump at U.S. Coast Guard Academy

“You could have gone to school anywhere you wanted -- and with very, very few responsibilities by comparison. Instead, you chose the path of service. You chose hard work, high standards, and a very noble mission -- to save lives, defend the homeland, and protect America’s interests around the world. You chose the Coast Guard. Good choice. ”

05-31
28:09

Bill Clinton at Hobart & William Smith Colleges

“As long as we believe our common humanity is most important, as long as we understand that diverse groups make better decisions than homogeneous ones or lone geniuses, as long as we realize the great thing about life is not final victories and the great tragedy is not final defeats—there aren’t any final victories or final defeats…but a life of permanent possibility”

05-31
30:10

Senator Cory Booker at University of Pennsylvania

I experience now, the same rush of chasing after dreams, of racing around a day, of moving from there to there, but I realized a simple lesson the older I get, that how we live our days, is how we live our lives.

05-30
30:14

Congressman John Lewis at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

“Our country needs you now more than ever before,” Lewis said. “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation, a mandate to stand up, speak up and speak out.”

05-29
26:18

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University

"Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started. If I had to know everything about connecting people before I got started, I never would have built Facebook."

05-27
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