畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文（精選3篇）
畢業(yè)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(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇2
老師們、同學們：
大家好!
今天我們歡聚一堂，舉行20_屆高中畢業(yè)同學的畢業(yè)典禮。很快就要公布高考成績，又一個激動人心的時刻即將到來。至此，同學們就要離開生活，學習了三年的_中學，日后稱之為母校的地方。與朝夕相處了三年的老師、同學分別。此刻，你們或許有千言萬語要跟老師訴說，有多少積蓄已久的話兒要向同學表達。此刻，我能見證同學們的畢業(yè)，最后一次欣賞同學們才情表達，是我人生中莫大的幸福。
在這離別的日子里，作為校長，我同樣有多少真心的話兒想跟你們講，心潮澎湃，思緒萬千。紙短情長，難以言表。我把所有的言語濃縮為三句話，六個字：讀書、立志和做人。
關于讀書：今天，你們的畢業(yè)，只是完成了中學學業(yè)，接受了人生的基礎教育，完成了人生的第一個奠基。今天在座的，絕大多數要步入高等學校的殿堂，接受更深層次的教育，進一步開闊自己的眼界，充實自己內心的世界，修煉自己的品格。同學們，讀書不是為了拿文憑或者發(fā)財，而是成為一個有溫度、懂情趣、會思考的人。
要記�。鹤x書雖然不能幫你解決所有問題，卻能給你提供一個更好的視角。讓我們更寬容地去理解這個世界有多復雜，是為了遇見更好的自己。大學，不同于中學，那里不僅有高樓大廈，有來自五湖四海的同學;更有寬敞明亮的圖書館，浩如煙海的古今中外的典籍;更有多種精密儀器、功能齊全的實驗室。
同學們，進入大學校園，你們一定會感覺到了一個新鮮世界，讓你眼花繚亂，或目不暇接。但我要提醒各位，在大學里，你們再也很難遇到：缺課，老師打電話了;賴床，老師去寢室叫你了;生病，老師帶你去醫(yī)院了;掛科，老師找你談心了。這里，一切都要靠你自覺。我希望同學們，要珍惜自己三年刻苦拼搏而得來的讀書機會，讀好書，好讀書，掌握成就自己、改造社會的真正本領。
關于立志：信念是成功的基石，理想是飛翔的翅膀。俗話說，有志之人立常志，無志之人常立志。人生是一場經歷。今天，從這里出發(fā)，是這場經歷的開端。我想，同學們要把握時代的脈搏，順應時代的潮流，做一個真實的自己。屬于你的，不要輕言放棄，與你無緣的'，不去盲目追求。仰不愧天，俯不怍人。
青春，是屬于自己的;時間，是屬于自己的;奮斗，是屬于自己的。時光易逝。歲月難留。我們不妨冷靜地想想，打火機出現，火柴消失了;計算器出現，算盤消失了;數碼相機出現，膠卷不見了;微信出現，飛信不見了�；ヂ摼W不僅加快了社會的發(fā)展速度，更加快了財富積累的方式與速度，我們不僅要接受新思維，更要拋棄舊觀念。要放下你的浮躁，放下你的懶惰，拒絕一切誘惑，靜下心來做自己該做的事�！熬l(wèi)銜微木，將以填滄海。刑天舞干戚，猛志因常在�！敝静涣�，則天下無可成之事。而且，往往一個人追求的目標越高，他的才能和智慧就發(fā)展得越快，對社會的貢獻也就越大。
關于做人：做一個什么樣的人呢?古代君子修身立德的內涵十分豐富，要求很高。自古“人無完人，金無足赤�！蔽覀兙妥鲆粋�敢擔當、有愛心、有責任的人吧。有擔當、有愛心的人，愁苦的陰云從來不會漂浮在他的天空，而歡喜的花兒也會常年盛開在他明亮的心田。擔當：就是敢于承擔責任�！疤煜屡d亡，匹夫有責�！边@是仁人志士的豪邁氣概。但“天下大事，必作于細”。
“一屋不掃，何以掃天下?”我們更應關注身邊的細節(jié)：面對老人摔倒，我們應當義無反顧地扶起;面對邪惡，我們應當挺身而出去制止;面對自己犯下的錯誤，敢于面對，勇于承認，自覺糾正，而不是推諉，更不是掩飾與逃避。進入大學，我們不要忘記在家鄉(xiāng)面朝黃土背朝天的漸漸老了的父母和鄉(xiāng)親，不能忘記為了自己求學還在不辭辛勞的父母和親人;要有一顆同情心，對待不幸的人們和弱者，要善待生活中的一切人。對于那些來自窮鄉(xiāng)僻壤的同學，不能抱怨與歧視，應當更加寬容與接納。
同學們：海闊憑魚躍，天高任鳥飛，今天，你們即將啟程，走向新的征途。感謝同學們?yōu)開中學留下了美好的記憶，感謝同學為百年校慶作出的貢獻。祝同學們前程似錦，一生平安、幸福!
謝謝大家!
畢業(yè)典禮演講稿英文 篇3
親愛的XX屆畢業(yè)生同學們：
你們好！
首先，為你們完成高中學業(yè)并即將踏入大學校園送上最美好的祝愿。向為同學們的成長傾注了熱情和智慧的所有任課老師、后勤人員、管理人員以及配合學校教育的家長們表示衷心的感謝！
不是每一種經歷都會留下永恒的記憶，不是每一次記憶都能帶來美好的懷想。三年前，你們帶著美麗的夢想來到xx中學，在晨曦中聞雞起舞，在夜幕下秉燭夜讀。，見證了你的青春與汗水，見證了你的智慧和榮光。你留在堅實的腳印定會堅定學弟學妹們前行的方向。親愛的同學們，流逝的時光像一首無聲的歌，俯仰之間，畢業(yè)的鐘聲已悄然敲響。回首一千多個日日夜夜，回首學習、生活了三年的這一片熱土——，點點滴滴或許已經成為你們生命中無法忘懷的一頁。
你一定不會忘記新生軍訓時嚴厲的教官還有你曬得黝黑的皮膚，也一定不會忘記“校園禁用手機”，你說學校做得不夠“融洽”，讓你無法在虛擬的網絡世界中瞬間崩塌。
你一定不會忘記食堂阿姨在你打飯時抖掉勺中本來就不多的肥肉，也一定不會忘記在你叫外賣時保安叔叔對你窮追不舍“無情”責罵。
你一定不會忘記每天為你們打開鐵門的宿舍管理員阿姨，也一定不會忘記小賣部里好吃的零食似乎從來都不會降價。
你一定不會忘記每年都會在五月開放的荷花，也一定不會忘記，有些同學趁著夜幕的掩蓋，在一些陰暗的角落“花前月下”。
你一定不會忘記集體跑操時呼喊的響亮的口號，也一定不會忘記贈送給學校的紀念樹，以后會在每年的春天里長出新芽。
你一定不會忘記在塵土飛揚的舊田徑場上奔跑的身影，也一定不會忘記荷塘邊“尊師重教”的雕像靜靜矗立在朝陽下。
你一定不會忘記那塊刻著“好，能不憶”字樣的石頭，也一定不會忘記新建的運動場以及校園的種種變化。
你一定不會忘記老師們?yōu)榱颂岣吣銈兂煽兠β档纳碛�，也一定不會忘記和你并肩作�?zhàn)的同學們，在取得好成績時笑靨如花。
你一定不會忘記“走進高三”儀式、高考百天誓師大會以及高考壯行會上領導、老師還有我們同學那些激動人心的話。
或許你曾對班主任的嚴厲批評感到委屈，或許你曾用不理智的言辭傷害過老師，但我希望你能讀懂他們的愛與責任以及對你的鼓勵；或許學校的一些規(guī)章制度曾一度讓你“不爽”，但我希望你能更多地看到學校為了大家的前途做出的種種努力。
臨近畢業(yè)，有位同學這樣對老師說：“我知道當高考結束時，我將不得不向您揮別。現在我想用米蘭昆德拉的一句話表達我真實的感受，‘當我們還在一起時，我就開始懷念，因為我知道我將失去！’”
親愛的同學們，在三年時光里，你們留下了太多讓我感動的記憶。這份記憶不會隨著歲月的流逝老去。你們的勤奮、執(zhí)著和剛毅，你們的樂觀、豁達與積極向上，一起感動著我們，一起激勵著我們。
忘不了“勤奮自強，勇創(chuàng)輝煌”的801班，成功終會屬于你們。因為你們腳踏實地，因為你們永不言棄！
忘不了展翅高飛的802班，在無悔的高三歲月里，立志“金榜奪魁”！
忘不了勇攀高峰的803班，你們是優(yōu)秀的學子，你們奮斗前進，永無止境。有了昌哥的勤勞，今年秋天的果實一定屬于你。
忘不了擁有愚公精神的804班，大山在你們面前不再是困難。希望你們今后在各自的行業(yè)里，勇奪桂冠！
忘不了“能文能武，生龍活虎”的805班，堅持 “非我莫屬”的信念，就會收獲成功的驚喜！
忘不了在東風中擂動戰(zhàn)鼓的806班，你們在困難面前毫不畏懼的精神會指引你們在今后的人生道路上乘風破浪。
忘不了一直在勤學苦練而又潛力無限的807班，經過你們的努力，定會“金榜題名”！
忘不了“高三時代，長得最帥”的808班，“八班一出，誰與爭鋒”！希望你們今后能夠繼續(xù)擁有這份人生的豪邁。
忘不了百煉成鋼的809班，你們十年寒窗苦讀，只為高考夢圓。希望你們繼續(xù)保持“破釜沉舟”的氣概，就沒有什么可以難得了你！
忘不了“一旦崛起，無人能敵” 的810班，成功的鮮花定會垂青，因為你們明白學無止境的深刻含義！
忘不了“全力以赴，永不放棄”的811班，你們和班主任一樣優(yōu)秀，今后一定會創(chuàng)造屬于自己的奇跡！
忘不了xx中學首屆十大類杰出人物頒獎典禮， 812班全體同學奉獻的一臺精彩晚會已經成為傳奇般的經歷。
忘不了“斗志昂揚，誓創(chuàng)輝煌”的813班，經歷高三的洗禮，青春的熱血譜寫成動人的篇章！
忘不了“無堅不摧”的814班，因為你們騰飛，因為你們奮起，所以你們能夠做到所向披靡！