畢業典禮演講稿英文（精選3篇）

畢業典禮演講稿英文 篇1

i am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. i never graduated from college. truth be told, this is the closest i've ever gotten to a college graduation.

today i want to tell you three stories from my life. that's it. no big deal. just three stories.

the first story is about connecting the dots.

i dropped out of reed college after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before i really quit. so why did i drop out?

it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. except that when i popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" they said: "of course." my biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the final adoption papers. she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that i would someday go to college.

and 17 years later i did go to college. but i naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. after six months, i couldn't see the value in it. i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. and here i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. so i decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i ever made. the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

it wasn't all romantic. i didn't have a dorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms, i returned coke bottles for the 5 deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across town every sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple. i loved it. and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example: reed college at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.

none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it all into the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. if i had never dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows just copied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i had never dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was in college. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

my second story is about love and loss.

i was lucky – i found what i loved to do early in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage when i was 20. we worked hard, and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we had just released our finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30. and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?

well, as apple grew we hired someone who i thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided with him. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over.

i didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

during the next five years, i started a company named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.

pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple bought next, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at the heart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful family together.

i'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, but i guess the patient needed it.

sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that i loved what i did.

畢業典禮演講稿英文 篇2

親愛的20xx屆畢業生同學們：

大家上午好!今天我們相聚在圖書館前的大草坪上，用這種隆重而浪漫的形式為你們舉行畢業典禮。

在場有很多同學是四年前我作為校長迎來的第一屆學生。記得在當年的開學典禮上，我曾説過，作為新校長我希望和同學們一起成長、一起進步。轉眼四年過去了，除了白髮增加了很多之外，我不確定自己是否有所進步。但我確定在這幾年時間裏，你們經歷了各種考驗和挑戰，實現了蜕變和成長。也使得今天我可以站在這裏，帶着欣喜、驕傲和不捨，最熱烈地祝賀你們——7306名同學，祝賀你們成功打出山門，順利畢業了!

同樣是在四年前的開學典禮上，我曾經和大家分享了我對“大學是什麼”的理解。當時我説的話也許很少有人還記得，但這並不重要，因為對這個問題，現在你們每個人都有了自己的答案。

對生科院的博士研究生王銘明來説，大學是學霸和愛情的完美結合，他不僅在國際著名學術刊物上發表了多篇論文，申請了多項國家發明專利，還與女朋友搭檔，拿下了挑戰杯二等獎——可見，華師大的姑娘真的就是那麼可愛。

在社發院的碩士研究生李露萍看來，她的大學是專業學習與社會現實的緊密結合，她持續關注和研究“農民農”問題，並因此獲得了楊雄市長親自頒發的“市長獎”。

在計算機科學與軟件工程學院本科生孫銘君的眼裏，大學是一個可以去大膽實踐夢想的地方，他與小夥伴們一起創立的牛咖信息科技有限公司，目前已經成功融資超過500萬。

雖然每個人的大學都不相同，但相同的是，今天在場的每位同學都是成功者，是你們共同創造了最新版的“師大故事”，接續了師大綿延137年的文脈長河，成就了華東師大在20xx年最大的成功和榮耀!

還記得孟憲承書院的同學們剛剛入學，我拿着擴音喇叭給大家做校園導遊的情形。那個時候，你們的臉上還帶着稚氣和青澀，和我不久之前在書院畢業生座談會上看到的迥然不同。經過了四年的薰陶和歷練，如今你們的眼神中，透出的是作為優秀教師應有的自信、沉穩和堅定。你我都知道，在這些變化的背後，傾注着老師們的付出和汗水。但你們未必知道，在你們學業有成的這一刻，老師心中那油然而生的幸福感覺，是何等的美好。

在今天這樣一個特殊的日子裏，因你們而感到幸福的當然還有你們的父母家人。在今年專程趕來參加畢業典禮的學生家長中有一位加拿大教授。他的兒子在師大留學期間和其他七位留學生同學一起參加了在雲南省德宏州梁河縣小廠鄉大邦幸國小的義務支教，兒子的這一選擇讓這位父親感到非常自豪，他因此決定飛過來參加兒子的畢業典禮。同樣作為父親，我能夠體會他的心情，能夠體會今天在場和不在場的所有畢業生父母自豪的心情。你們為孩子的成長所付出的一切，在今天這一刻得到了回報。

在這裏，我要請大家把最熱烈的掌聲送給全體畢業生同學，感謝你們為母校、為老師、為家人帶來了榮耀、幸福和自豪，我特別還要感謝的是，你們用自己的努力和行動，印證了我四年前説的那句話，你們就是大學，你們就是華東師大!

在我看來，華東師大一直都有着一種特殊的氣質。儘管我們早就不是一所傳統意義上的師範大學，儘管我們在研究型大學的建設上不斷邁出新的步伐，但“師範”二字所包含的求實創造，為人師表的精神，仍然在深刻影響着學校的辦學行為和價值選擇。無論世事如何變化，這所大學總是能夠樂觀地面對一切，不忘初心，不負己任，踏踏實實地盡到教書育人、服務國家和社會的責任。這也許會讓我們在功利喧囂的競爭環境中不那麼顯眼，但卻可以讓我們在追求卓越的道路上行得更穩、走得更遠。這所學校的過去和今天值得我們驕傲，這所學校更加美好、更加卓越的明天在等待我們去攜手創造!

親愛的同學們，這就是你們的母校，一個你們曾經呆過三年、四年甚至更長時間的地方，一個你們實現蜕變和成長的地方。今天的典禮之後，你們中的很多人將背起行囊，獨自去開啟人生的下一段精彩。在離別的時刻，作為你們的校長和學長，我有很多希望和祝福想要表達。我希望你們都能健康平安，人生幸福;希望你們能夠追求卓越，事業成功;希望你們能夠品行高尚，受人尊敬。而在所有這些願望之外，我還有兩個簡單而樸素的希望。

我希望你們能夠擁有積極樂觀的人生態度，因為它可以改變你看待世界的眼光和做人做事的方式，使你寬容、堅韌並更有魅力。一位成就斐然、廣受敬重的學者曾經告訴我，應該更多地用積極樂觀的眼光去看待周圍的人和事，應該努力讓自己的工作環境保持和諧愉快，否則自己的人生不會幸福，事業也難有成績。他這番樸素但又深刻的人生思考，讓我在更高的層次上認識了樂觀的意義和價值，認識到積極樂觀應該成為我們的堅定選擇，因為它關係到我們的身心健康，事業成就，特別是人生幸福。

我還希望你們把傳遞積極樂觀作為自己的責任。師大20xx屆畢業生中有一位韓穎同學。雖然疾病讓她失去了視力，但積極樂觀的心態卻支撐着她邁上了一個又一個在旁人看來她難以邁上的台階。靠牽着導盲犬，她完成了在師大的學業，畢業後，又作為首批視障人士參加並通過了英語中級口譯考試，幫助和帶動了更多視障學友走進了終身教育的課堂，成為了“全國殘疾人自強模範”。而更令人欽佩的是，為了實現兒時的夢想，最近她又創辦了光影之聲文化發展中心，帶領着一批視障朋友投入到“無障礙電影”的公益事業中。從她的身上，我看到了積極樂觀的力量，看到了師大人的社會擔當。我希望，從這個校門走出去的人，都能像韓穎一樣，把傳遞積極樂觀作為自己的責任，能影響和帶動更多的人，共同去追逐夢想。

親愛的同學們，畢業的絃歌已經奏響，你們也即將揮別母校。多年之後，無論你們身處何地，成就幾何，我都希望大家始終能把積極樂觀作為自己的選擇和責任，始終能用微笑去面對人生。但如果哪一天你們真的累了，也不妨暫時停下腳步，回頭看看你們的母校，看看那些“當時只道是尋常”的美好記憶——

一起夜跑的瘋狂日子，是你們回不去的青春年華;深夜食堂裏的麻辣小龍蝦，會成為某一天你放不下的執着念想;廣場音樂會的滿天星光，是學弟學妹們給你們送上的美好祝福;櫻桃河畔那搖曳的紫色馬鞭草，是母校贈與你們的最夢幻的畢業禮物。而你們胸前閃閃發亮的畢業徽章，則是今天，母校和你們守望一生的承諾。

再見了，同學們!請帶上母校的祝福，去開創你們因為積極樂觀，所以幸福美滿的人生吧!

畢業典禮演講稿英文 篇3

1998年，施萊弗在聖十字學院演講

“永遠不要指望別人在經濟上支持你。”

NBC的新聞主播、肯尼迪家族的第三代成員瑪麗亞·施萊弗在聖十字學院1998年的畢業典禮上發表了這篇演講，她的言論一經發表就受到了全國的廣泛關注。施萊弗提到她在演講之前就得到了很多關於“演講應該講什麼”的建議，最終她決定去分享“當我像你們一樣坐在畢業典禮的會堂裏，我最希望別人告訴我的十件事”，這十件事包括“發掘你的激情”、“不要讓工作壓倒你”、“女超人不存在”等等。

施萊弗用她自己在事業上和育兒上的親身經歷來支持她的觀點，她做到了用最詼諧的方式去對待生活中最艱難的時刻。

在這篇大受好評的演講的基礎上，施萊弗又出版了名為《在我走進真實世界前我最想知道的十件事》一書，這本書一經出版就迅速成為畢業禮物清單上的大熱門，霎時間風靡整個校園。

在20xx年，施萊弗又繼續發表了她的第二次畢業演講，她的這次發聲同樣擲地有聲。這篇名為“停頓的力量”的演講發表在南加州大學的畢業典禮上， 這正是她女兒的畢業典禮，她建議新的畢業生在做重大的判斷和決策之前先停一停。