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(xué)們：
大家好!
今天我們歡聚一堂，舉行20_屆高中畢業(yè)同學(xué)的畢業(yè)典禮。很快就要公布高考成績(jī)，又一個(gè)激動(dòng)人心的時(shí)刻即將到來(lái)。至此，同學(xué)們就要離開生活，學(xué)習(xí)了三年的_中學(xué)，日后稱之為母校的地方。與朝夕相處了三年的老師、同學(xué)分別。此刻，你們或許有千言萬(wàn)語(yǔ)要跟老師訴說(shuō)，有多少積蓄已久的話兒要向同學(xué)表達(dá)。此刻，我能見證同學(xué)們的畢業(yè)，最后一次欣賞同學(xué)們才情表達(dá)，是我人生中莫大的幸福。
在這離別的日子里，作為校長(zhǎng)，我同樣有多少真心的話兒想跟你們講，心潮澎湃，思緒萬(wàn)千。紙短情長(zhǎng)，難以言表。我把所有的言語(yǔ)濃縮為三句話，六個(gè)字：讀書、立志和做人。
關(guān)于讀書：今天，你們的畢業(yè)，只是完成了中學(xué)學(xué)業(yè)，接受了人生的基礎(chǔ)教育，完成了人生的第一個(gè)奠基。今天在座的，絕大多數(shù)要步入高等學(xué)校的殿堂，接受更深層次的教育，進(jìn)一步開闊自己的眼界，充實(shí)自己內(nèi)心的世界，修煉自己的品格。同學(xué)們，讀書不是為了拿文憑或者發(fā)財(cái)，而是成為一個(gè)有溫度、懂情趣、會(huì)思考的人。
要記住：讀書雖然不能幫你解決所有問題，卻能給你提供一個(gè)更好的視角。讓我們更寬容地去理解這個(gè)世界有多復(fù)雜，是為了遇見更好的自己。大學(xué)，不同于中學(xué)，那里不僅有高樓大廈，有來(lái)自五湖四海的同學(xué);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(shí)驗(yàn)室。
同學(xué)們，進(jìn)入大學(xué)校園，你們一定會(huì)感覺到了一個(gè)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(xué)里，你們?cè)僖埠茈y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(xué)們，要珍惜自己三年刻苦拼搏而得來(lái)的讀書機(jī)會(huì)，讀好書，好讀書，掌握成就自己、改造社會(huì)的真正本領(lǐng)。
關(guān)于立志：信念是成功的基石，理想是飛翔的翅膀。俗話說(shuō)，有志之人立常志，無(wú)志之人常立志。人生是一場(chǎng)經(jīng)歷。今天，從這里出發(fā)，是這場(chǎng)經(jīng)歷的開端。我想，同學(xué)們要把握時(shí)代的脈搏，順應(yīng)時(shí)代的潮流，做一個(gè)真實(shí)的自己。屬于你的，不要輕言放棄，與你無(wú)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(shí)間，是屬于自己的;奮斗，是屬于自己的。時(shí)光易逝。歲月難留。我們不妨冷靜地想想，打火機(jī)出現(xiàn)，火柴消失了;計(jì)算器出現(xiàn)，算盤消失了;數(shù)碼相機(jī)出現(xiàn)，膠卷不見了;微信出現(xiàn)，飛信不見了�；ヂ�(lián)網(wǎng)不僅加快了社會(huì)的發(fā)展速度，更加快了財(cái)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(lái)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。”志不立，則天下無(wú)可成之事。而且，往往一個(gè)人追求的目標(biāo)越高，他的才能和智慧就發(fā)展得越快，對(duì)社會(huì)的貢獻(xiàn)也就越大。
關(guān)于做人：做一個(gè)什么樣的人呢?古代君子修身立德的內(nèi)涵十分豐富，要求很高。自古“人無(wú)完人，金無(wú)足赤�！蔽覀兙妥鲆粋�(gè)敢擔(dān)當(dāng)、有愛心、有責(zé)任的人吧。有擔(dān)當(dāng)、有愛心的人，愁苦的陰云從來(lái)不會(huì)漂浮在他的天空，而歡喜的花兒也會(huì)常年盛開在他明亮的心田。擔(dān)當(dāng)：就是敢于承擔(dān)責(zé)任�！疤煜屡d亡，匹夫有責(zé)。”這是仁人志士的豪邁氣概。但“天下大事，必作于細(xì)”。
“一屋不掃，何以掃天下?”我們更應(yīng)關(guān)注身邊的細(xì)節(jié)：面對(duì)老人摔倒，我們應(yīng)當(dāng)義無(wú)反顧地扶起;面對(duì)邪惡，我們應(yīng)當(dāng)挺身而出去制止;面對(duì)自己犯下的錯(cuò)誤，敢于面對(duì)，勇于承認(rèn)，自覺糾正，而不是推諉，更不是掩飾與逃避。進(jìn)入大學(xué)，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(xué)還在不辭辛勞的父母和親人;要有一顆同情心，對(duì)待不幸的人們和弱者，要善待生活中的一切人。對(duì)于那些來(lái)自窮鄉(xiāng)僻壤的同學(xué)，不能抱怨與歧視，應(yīng)當(dāng)更加寬容與接納。
同學(xué)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(xué)們?yōu)開中學(xué)留下了美好的記憶，感謝同學(xué)為百年校慶作出的貢獻(xiàn)。祝同學(xué)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(xué)們：
你們好！
首先，為你們完成高中學(xué)業(yè)并即將踏入大學(xué)校園送上最美好的祝愿。向?yàn)橥瑢W(xué)們的成長(zhǎng)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(xué)校教育的家長(zhǎng)們表示衷心的感謝！
不是每一種經(jīng)歷都會(huì)留下永恒的記憶，不是每一次記憶都能帶來(lái)美好的懷想。三年前，你們帶著美麗的夢(mèng)想來(lái)到xx中學(xué)，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(jiān)實(shí)的腳印定會(huì)堅(jiān)定學(xué)弟學(xué)妹們前行的方向。親愛的同學(xué)們，流逝的時(shí)光像一首無(wú)聲的歌，俯仰之間，畢業(yè)的鐘聲已悄然敲響�；厥滓磺Ф鄠�(gè)日日夜夜，回首學(xué)習(xí)、生活了三年的這一片熱土——，點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴或許已經(jīng)成為你們生命中無(wú)法忘懷的一頁(yè)。
你一定不會(huì)忘記新生軍訓(xùn)時(shí)嚴(yán)厲的教官還有你曬得黝黑的皮膚，也一定不會(huì)忘記“校園禁用手機(jī)”，你說(shuō)學(xué)校做得不夠“融洽”，讓你無(wú)法在虛擬的網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界中瞬間崩塌。
你一定不會(huì)忘記食堂阿姨在你打飯時(shí)抖掉勺中本來(lái)就不多的肥肉，也一定不會(huì)忘記在你叫外賣時(shí)保安叔叔對(duì)你窮追不舍“無(wú)情”責(zé)罵。
你一定不會(huì)忘記每天為你們打開鐵門的宿舍管理員阿姨，也一定不會(huì)忘記小賣部里好吃的零食似乎從來(lái)都不會(huì)降價(jià)。
你一定不會(huì)忘記每年都會(huì)在五月開放的荷花，也一定不會(huì)忘記，有些同學(xué)趁著夜幕的掩蓋，在一些陰暗的角落“花前月下”。
你一定不會(huì)忘記集體跑操時(shí)呼喊的響亮的口號(hào)，也一定不會(huì)忘記贈(zèng)送給學(xué)校的紀(jì)念樹，以后會(huì)在每年的春天里長(zhǎng)出新芽。
你一定不會(huì)忘記在塵土飛揚(yáng)的舊田徑場(chǎng)上奔跑的身影，也一定不會(huì)忘記荷塘邊“尊師重教”的雕像靜靜矗立在朝陽(yáng)下。
你一定不會(huì)忘記那塊刻著“好，能不憶”字樣的石頭，也一定不會(huì)忘記新建的運(yùn)動(dòng)場(chǎng)以及校園的種種變化。
你一定不會(huì)忘記老師們?yōu)榱颂岣吣銈兂煽?jī)忙碌的身影，也一定不會(huì)忘記和你并肩作戰(zhàn)的同學(xué)們，在取得好成績(jī)時(shí)笑靨如花。
你一定不會(huì)忘記“走進(jìn)高三”儀式、高考百天誓師大會(huì)以及高考?jí)研袝?huì)上領(lǐng)導(dǎo)、老師還有我們同學(xué)那些激動(dòng)人心的話。
或許你曾對(duì)班主任的嚴(yán)厲批評(píng)感到委屈，或許你曾用不理智的言辭傷害過(guò)老師，但我希望你能讀懂他們的愛與責(zé)任以及對(duì)你的鼓勵(lì)；或許學(xué)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(xué)校為了大家的前途做出的種種努力。
臨近畢業(yè)，有位同學(xué)這樣對(duì)老師說(shuō)：“我知道當(dāng)高考結(jié)束時(shí)，我將不得不向您揮別�，F(xiàn)在我想用米蘭昆德拉的一句話表達(dá)我真實(shí)的感受，‘當(dāng)我們還在一起時(shí)，我就開始懷念，因?yàn)槲抑牢覍⑹ィ ?/p>
親愛的同學(xué)們，在三年時(shí)光里，你們留下了太多讓我感動(dòng)的記憶。這份記憶不會(huì)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(dá)與積極向上，一起感動(dòng)著我們，一起激勵(lì)著我們。
忘不了“勤奮自強(qiáng)，勇創(chuàng)輝煌”的801班，成功終會(huì)屬于你們。因?yàn)槟銈兡_踏實(shí)地，因?yàn)槟銈冇啦谎詶墸?/p>
忘不了展翅高飛的802班，在無(wú)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(xué)子，你們奮斗前進(jìn)，永無(wú)止境。有了昌哥的勤勞，今年秋天的果實(shí)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(jiān)持 “非我莫屬”的信念，就會(huì)收獲成功的驚喜！
忘不了在東風(fēng)中擂動(dòng)戰(zhàn)鼓的806班，你們?cè)诶щy面前毫不畏懼的精神會(huì)指引你們?cè)诮窈蟮娜松缆飞铣孙L(fēng)破浪。
忘不了一直在勤學(xué)苦練而又潛力無(wú)限的807班，經(jīng)過(guò)你們的努力，定會(huì)“金榜題名”！
忘不了“高三時(shí)代，長(zhǎng)得最帥”的808班，“八班一出，誰(shuí)與爭(zhēng)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?jí)魣A。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(wú)人能敵” 的810班，成功的鮮花定會(huì)垂青，因?yàn)槟銈兠靼讓W(xué)無(wú)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(huì)創(chuàng)造屬于自己的奇跡！
忘不了xx中學(xué)首屆十大類杰出人物頒獎(jiǎng)典禮， 812班全體同學(xué)奉獻(xiàn)的一臺(tái)精彩晚會(huì)已經(jīng)成為傳奇般的經(jīng)歷。
忘不了“斗志昂揚(yáng)，誓創(chuàng)輝煌”的813班，經(jīng)歷高三的洗禮，青春的熱血譜寫成動(dòng)人的篇章！
忘不了“無(wú)堅(jiān)不摧”的814班，因?yàn)槟銈凃v飛，因?yàn)槟銈儕^起，所以你們能夠做到所向披靡！