Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

I once read that brio is well represented as a pearl deep at heart an huitre. The pearl symbolizes each persons potential, or the things that are going well for them in life. Just as a mere grain of sand that enters an oyster can grow into something of great worth, there is a fragment of excellence within every one of you that over time can be shape you into an individual who will make a difference in the world. There will be trials and hardships to overcome along the road to do a difference, but consider what Hellen Keller once wrote, The marvelous richness of valet de chambre experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were not limitations to overcome. The brow hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. It is true that undergoing hard work in set to achieve ones dreams makes the arrival at success even more gratifying. Our lives are books to which each of us is our own author. We are the ones who write each chapter of our li fe. The ruff chapters are yet to be written and among them are talents yet to be discovered. We all po...