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
尊敬的领导、老师、亲爱的同学们：
大家好!
很荣幸今天能够站在这里，代表_级全体毕业生在此发言。我的发言不代表过去，不代表未来，却代表着每一个即将离校学子的肺腑之言。首先，允许我代表全体毕业生向辛勤付出的领导和老师表示最衷心的感谢和最崇高的敬意!
大学生活如白驹过隙匆匆流逝，却又在而后的思念里细水长流，思念中夹杂着深情，夹杂着感动。大学三年，每个人都有着自己太多的忘不了。忘不了教学楼里的考场，那里依然留有我们战斗过的痕迹;忘不了宿舍楼下的草地，那里依然飘荡着青青香草的味道;更忘不了温馨的寝室里，仿佛依旧回荡着大家的欢声笑语，一幕幕场景就像一张张绚烂的剪贴画，串连成一部即将谢幕的电，播放着我们的快乐和忧伤，记录着我们的青春与过往，也见证着我们的情深义重。相信大学日子里的酸、甜、苦、辣给每一个人都留下了弥足珍贵的记忆;相信大学三年的学习会成为我们每一个人未来发展的不竭动力;相信自信、专注的精神将是我们一生的财富。
自从大一当上副班长开始，到现在工作岗位的变动，既是对自己努力工作后的肯定，更是对未来所走道路方向的苛求。自从认识身边的你们开始，到此时在为工作中遇到的各种选择而彷徨，一起快乐，一起悲伤。每个人都忙忙碌碌，一切仿佛一首没写完的诗，匆匆开始就要匆匆告别。但是，如果大学再来一次，相信自己还会选择同样的学习和生活方式。因为，我很珍惜也很庆幸，短暂的三年学习时光，有着这么一段刻苦铭心的记忆。大学留给了我们最美好的回忆，也给了我们人生最大的慰藉。
三年中，我们学会了成长，学会了思考，学会了合作与竞争，学会了彼此信赖。一起走过的日子，有老师的殷切教导和期望一路陪伴，使得我们获得知识的同时也获得了希望，我们相互扶持、互相鼓励。朋友温馨的笑容，班级温暖的气氛，让我们学会去爱，去坚持，去相信未来!亲爱的老师，是你们教会了我怎样做个有责任心的人，让我学会了怎样为人处事，怎样平衡学习与工作的关系。让我在学习之余统筹安排工作，让学习与工作变得更加有效率!在此，请允许我代表所有的毕业生向敬爱的学校领导和老师们说声：谢谢。感谢你们一直以来的帮助与支持!
毕业是一首久唱不衰的老歌，是散场之后的余音绕耳，是所有甜美或者苦涩的故事，定格为热泪盈眶的欣悦，依然真诚直率的目光，依然奔流激荡的热血，让时间作证，承载着梦想的我们一定会更加勇敢、坚强、成熟地面对未来!我们一定会做拥有智慧并富有激情的人，做胸怀大志并脚踏实地的人，做德才兼备并勇于创新的人，做富有责任并敢挑重担的人!从大红鹰走出来的我们，无论我们走到哪里，请不要忘记：这个世界有一种美好，那便是昔日时光;这个世界有一种经典，那便是今朝拼搏;这个世界有一种永恒，那便是我们的梦想!
最后，我们将最美好的祝愿送给红鹰旗帜下辛勤劳作的教师们，祝愿我们的老师身体健康，工作顺利!祝愿我们母校的明天更加辉煌!谢谢大家!
毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇3
老师们、同学们：
大家好!
每年的毕业典礼，坐在这儿，我的心情都很激动。因为，毕业典礼，标志着我们在座的同学，通过自己三年来的辛勤努力，已经顺利地完成了初中阶段的学业，即将踏上人生新的征途。在此，首先向同学们表示最热烈地祝贺!
同时，我相信我们所有老师的心情肯定也同样非常激动，因为，作为老师，此时此刻，当看到自己的学生因为自己的辛勤工作而学业有成、能“海阔鱼跃、鸟飞天高”的时候，是他感到自己的生命最有意义的时候，是他最幸福的时候，教书育人的酸甜苦辣，此时此刻，惟有甘甜。在此，我提议所有同学，用我们最热烈的掌声，向所有老师，致以最崇高的敬意!
同学们，后天大家就将走进中考的考场，迎接人生第一场重要的挑战。在此，我衷心地希望每一位同学都能沉着冷静，积极应战，发挥正常的水平，考出理想的成绩。同时，我也希望同学们以平常心来对待中考，虽然中考重要，它能够影响和改变我们人生的轨迹，但是，它并不能决定我们的命运，因为，心若在，梦就在，年轻没有失败!
同学们即将毕业，借这个机会，送两句话给大家作为贺礼，一是因为有你的存在让别人感到幸福。这是做人的标准，也是同学们今后人生成功的基石。二是勇敢面对和承担自己的责任。责任，是人生奋斗的动力。责任，包括个人、家庭、社会三种。个人责任，就是父母赋予你生命，你就应该确保自己健康成长，能够独立生活;家庭责任，就是应该尊老爱幼，发家致富，感恩父母;社会责任，就是要用自己的勤劳和智慧去创造财富，同时力所能及回报社会。
同学们，初中三年，时光很短，人生的路，还很漫长，但是，衷心祈愿，初中三年的时光已经点燃大家未来人生路上的那盏明灯，照亮大家，坚实前行。同时，也衷心希望，初中三年我们大家结下的师生谊、朋友情天长地久，地久天长!
最后，祝愿大家中考顺利，前程似锦!