毕业典礼演讲稿英文（精选3篇）
毕业典礼演讲稿英文 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.
毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇2
老师们、同学们：
大家好!
今天我们欢聚一堂，举行20_届高中毕业同学的毕业典礼。很快就要公布高考成绩，又一个激动人心的时刻即将到来。至此，同学们就要离开生活，学习了三年的_中学，日后称之为母校的地方。与朝夕相处了三年的老师、同学分别。此刻，你们或许有千言万语要跟老师诉说，有多少积蓄已久的话儿要向同学表达。此刻，我能见证同学们的毕业，最后一次欣赏同学们才情表达，是我人生中莫大的幸福。
在这离别的日子里，作为校长，我同样有多少真心的话儿想跟你们讲，心潮澎湃，思绪万千。纸短情长，难以言表。我把所有的言语浓缩为三句话，六个字：读书、立志和做人。
关于读书：今天，你们的毕业，只是完成了中学学业，接受了人生的基础教育，完成了人生的第一个奠基。今天在座的，绝大多数要步入高等学校的殿堂，接受更深层次的教育，进一步开阔自己的眼界，充实自己内心的世界，修炼自己的品格。同学们，读书不是为了拿文凭或者发财，而是成为一个有温度、懂情趣、会思考的人。
要记住：读书虽然不能帮你解决所有问题，却能给你提供一个更好的视角。让我们更宽容地去理解这个世界有多复杂，是为了遇见更好的自己。大学，不同于中学，那里不仅有高楼大厦，有来自五湖四海的同学;更有宽敞明亮的图书馆，浩如烟海的古今中外的典籍;更有多种精密仪器、功能齐全的实验室。
同学们，进入大学校园，你们一定会感觉到了一个新鲜世界，让你眼花缭乱，或目不暇接。但我要提醒各位，在大学里，你们再也很难遇到：缺课，老师打电话了;赖床，老师去寝室叫你了;生病，老师带你去医院了;挂科，老师找你谈心了。这里，一切都要靠你自觉。我希望同学们，要珍惜自己三年刻苦拼搏而得来的读书机会，读好书，好读书，掌握成就自己、改造社会的真正本领。
关于立志：信念是成功的基石，理想是飞翔的翅膀。俗话说，有志之人立常志，无志之人常立志。人生是一场经历。今天，从这里出发，是这场经历的开端。我想，同学们要把握时代的脉搏，顺应时代的潮流，做一个真实的自己。属于你的，不要轻言放弃，与你无缘的'，不去盲目追求。仰不愧天，俯不怍人。
青春，是属于自己的;时间，是属于自己的;奋斗，是属于自己的。时光易逝。岁月难留。我们不妨冷静地想想，打火机出现，火柴消失了;计算器出现，算盘消失了;数码相机出现，胶卷不见了;微信出现，飞信不见了。互联网不仅加快了社会的发展速度，更加快了财富积累的方式与速度，我们不仅要接受新思维，更要抛弃旧观念。要放下你的浮躁，放下你的懒惰，拒绝一切诱惑，静下心来做自己该做的事。“精卫衔微木，将以填沧海。刑天舞干戚，猛志因常在。”志不立，则天下无可成之事。而且，往往一个人追求的目标越高，他的才能和智慧就发展得越快，对社会的贡献也就越大。
关于做人：做一个什么样的人呢?古代君子修身立德的内涵十分丰富，要求很高。自古“人无完人，金无足赤。”我们就做一个敢担当、有爱心、有责任的人吧。有担当、有爱心的人，愁苦的阴云从来不会漂浮在他的天空，而欢喜的花儿也会常年盛开在他明亮的心田。担当：就是敢于承担责任。“天下兴亡，匹夫有责。”这是仁人志士的豪迈气概。但“天下大事，必作于细”。
“一屋不扫，何以扫天下?”我们更应关注身边的细节：面对老人摔倒，我们应当义无反顾地扶起;面对邪恶，我们应当挺身而出去制止;面对自己犯下的错误，敢于面对，勇于承认，自觉纠正，而不是推诿，更不是掩饰与逃避。进入大学，我们不要忘记在家乡面朝黄土背朝天的渐渐老了的父母和乡亲，不能忘记为了自己求学还在不辞辛劳的父母和亲人;要有一颗同情心，对待不幸的人们和弱者，要善待生活中的一切人。对于那些来自穷乡僻壤的同学，不能抱怨与歧视，应当更加宽容与接纳。
同学们：海阔凭鱼跃，天高任鸟飞，今天，你们即将启程，走向新的征途。感谢同学们为_中学留下了美好的记忆，感谢同学为百年校庆作出的贡献。祝同学们前程似锦，一生平安、幸福!
谢谢大家!
毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇3
亲爱的XX届毕业生同学们：
你们好！
首先，为你们完成高中学业并即将踏入大学校园送上最美好的祝愿。向为同学们的成长倾注了热情和智慧的所有任课老师、后勤人员、管理人员以及配合学校教育的家长们表示衷心的感谢！
不是每一种经历都会留下永恒的记忆，不是每一次记忆都能带来美好的怀想。三年前，你们带着美丽的梦想来到xx中学，在晨曦中闻鸡起舞，在夜幕下秉烛夜读。，见证了你的青春与汗水，见证了你的智慧和荣光。你留在坚实的脚印定会坚定学弟学妹们前行的方向。亲爱的同学们，流逝的时光像一首无声的歌，俯仰之间，毕业的钟声已悄然敲响。回首一千多个日日夜夜，回首学习、生活了三年的这一片热土——，点点滴滴或许已经成为你们生命中无法忘怀的一页。
你一定不会忘记新生军训时严厉的教官还有你晒得黝黑的皮肤，也一定不会忘记“校园禁用手机”，你说学校做得不够“融洽”，让你无法在虚拟的网络世界中瞬间崩塌。
你一定不会忘记食堂阿姨在你打饭时抖掉勺中本来就不多的肥肉，也一定不会忘记在你叫外卖时保安叔叔对你穷追不舍“无情”责骂。
你一定不会忘记每天为你们打开铁门的宿舍管理员阿姨，也一定不会忘记小卖部里好吃的零食似乎从来都不会降价。
你一定不会忘记每年都会在五月开放的荷花，也一定不会忘记，有些同学趁着夜幕的掩盖，在一些阴暗的角落“花前月下”。
你一定不会忘记集体跑操时呼喊的响亮的口号，也一定不会忘记赠送给学校的纪念树，以后会在每年的春天里长出新芽。
你一定不会忘记在尘土飞扬的旧田径场上奔跑的身影，也一定不会忘记荷塘边“尊师重教”的雕像静静矗立在朝阳下。
你一定不会忘记那块刻着“好，能不忆”字样的石头，也一定不会忘记新建的运动场以及校园的种种变化。
你一定不会忘记老师们为了提高你们成绩忙碌的身影，也一定不会忘记和你并肩作战的同学们，在取得好成绩时笑靥如花。
你一定不会忘记“走进高三”仪式、高考百天誓师大会以及高考壮行会上领导、老师还有我们同学那些激动人心的话。
或许你曾对班主任的严厉批评感到委屈，或许你曾用不理智的言辞伤害过老师，但我希望你能读懂他们的爱与责任以及对你的鼓励；或许学校的一些规章制度曾一度让你“不爽”，但我希望你能更多地看到学校为了大家的前途做出的种种努力。
临近毕业，有位同学这样对老师说：“我知道当高考结束时，我将不得不向您挥别。现在我想用米兰昆德拉的一句话表达我真实的感受，‘当我们还在一起时，我就开始怀念，因为我知道我将失去！’”
亲爱的同学们，在三年时光里，你们留下了太多让我感动的记忆。这份记忆不会随着岁月的流逝老去。你们的勤奋、执着和刚毅，你们的乐观、豁达与积极向上，一起感动着我们，一起激励着我们。
忘不了“勤奋自强，勇创辉煌”的801班，成功终会属于你们。因为你们脚踏实地，因为你们永不言弃！
忘不了展翅高飞的802班，在无悔的高三岁月里，立志“金榜夺魁”！
忘不了勇攀高峰的803班，你们是优秀的学子，你们奋斗前进，永无止境。有了昌哥的勤劳，今年秋天的果实一定属于你。
忘不了拥有愚公精神的804班，大山在你们面前不再是困难。希望你们今后在各自的行业里，勇夺桂冠！
忘不了“能文能武，生龙活虎”的805班，坚持 “非我莫属”的信念，就会收获成功的惊喜！
忘不了在东风中擂动战鼓的806班，你们在困难面前毫不畏惧的精神会指引你们在今后的人生道路上乘风破浪。
忘不了一直在勤学苦练而又潜力无限的807班，经过你们的努力，定会“金榜题名”！
忘不了“高三时代，长得最帅”的808班，“八班一出，谁与争锋”！希望你们今后能够继续拥有这份人生的豪迈。
忘不了百炼成钢的809班，你们十年寒窗苦读，只为高考梦圆。希望你们继续保持“破釜沉舟”的气概，就没有什么可以难得了你！
忘不了“一旦崛起，无人能敌” 的810班，成功的鲜花定会垂青，因为你们明白学无止境的深刻含义！
忘不了“全力以赴，永不放弃”的811班，你们和班主任一样优秀，今后一定会创造属于自己的奇迹！
忘不了xx中学首届十大类杰出人物颁奖典礼， 812班全体同学奉献的一台精彩晚会已经成为传奇般的经历。
忘不了“斗志昂扬，誓创辉煌”的813班，经历高三的洗礼，青春的热血谱写成动人的篇章！
忘不了“无坚不摧”的814班，因为你们腾飞，因为你们奋起，所以你们能够做到所向披靡！
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