Berühmte abschlussreden

1. Steve Jobs - Stanford University, 2005: "Stay hungry, stay foolish."

2. Oprah Winfrey - Harvard University, 2013: "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

3. J.K. Rowling - Harvard University, 2008: "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

4. Barack Obama - Howard University, 2016: "Change requires more than righteous anger. It requires a program, and it requires organizing."

5. Ellen DeGeneres - Tulane University, 2009: "Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that."

6. Winston Churchill - Harrow School, 1941: "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

7. Michelle Obama - City College of New York, 2016: "Don’t ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter, or like you don’t have a place in our American story—because you do."

8. Neil Gaiman - University of the Arts, 2012: "The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

9. Sheryl Sandberg - UC Berkeley, 2016: "We hold the power to determine our own fates, and the responsibility to use that power."

10. Jim Carrey - Maharishi University of Management, 2014: "You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."