5 University Graduation Speeches to Inspire your Life

Your working life can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling years of your life, with opportunities to help and support the important people around you. There will be moments filled with achievement and purpose, but there will also be times of adversity. 

Graduation speeches often seem to sum up the world’s best knowledge into 10-15 minutes and give advice to store away for the times ahead. Whether you are aspiring to grow your doTERRA business, improve your relationships or do more of the things you love, these speeches can provide a dose of inspiration to help make your dreams a reality.

1. Ellen DeGeneres

Tulane University, 2009

Best quote: “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 then by all means you should follow that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8ToRVOtRo

2. Oprah Winfrey

Harvard University, 2013

Best quote: "It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWFieBGR7c

3. Sheryl Sandberg

UC Berkeley, 2016

Best quote: “When life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, find the surface and breathe again.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqm-XEqpayc

4. Steve Jobs

Stanford University, 2005

Best quote: “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

5. Tim Minchin

The University of Western Australia, 2013

Best quote: “Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEezZD71sc