Jim Carrey
Actor, Comedian
"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality."
Commencement quotes
Commencement
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Denzel Washington
Actor, Director
"Every failed experiment is one step closer to success."
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"To make a commencement requires a mental effort."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
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