Graduation Speech: Nothing is Accomplished Without Risk :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

I would like to begin by saying that I am honored to be able to lose before you this night as a representative of my class, a great class, the class of 2012I think back starting kindergarten and looking at high school with such(prenominal) awe. It was almost a dream. Each year I took a dance step restrictingr, barely it always seemed so far away. And yet this evening, I stand up here representing the realization of that dream. We have done it No, really, think roughly it for a second, we have achieved the biggest, most anticipated event of our lives. We made itGraduates praise yourselves on a job well done. Sitting here tonight shows a great deal of take a leak and dedication. Seriously, look back on what you have done in just that last four years, permit alone what you have accomplished in all your years of school. It is astonish what we have done. Congratulations, your perseverance has finally paid off. But also, we must remember to thank our parents, for it has been wi th their help and support that we have achieved our goal.We stand here tonight celebrating the accomplishment of our greatest achievement. But we also stand on the doorway of the greatest challenge and adventure of our lives. This ceremony is all that lies between us and the so-called real world. We are about to embark into the hereafter. A future with infinite possibilities.High school was an important step in our lives, but it was just a step. We must always strive to educate ourselves and work to the trounce of our abilities. We must use the tools that we have been given to push ourselves to our fullest potential. The only way to utilize the infinite possibilities of the future is to work. To strive to do our best and then some, and to risk of exposure.Nothing in life is accomplished without risk. A risk of self, a risk of time, of money, of anything, a risk. With this is mind I would like to close by sharing with you a quote called Man in the Arena, by Theodore Roosevelt.It is not the critic who counts. Not the one who points out how the strong bit stumbled or the doer of deeds might have done them better.