《毕业典礼演讲稿英文推荐3篇》

毕业典礼演讲稿英文（通用3篇）

毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇1

20xx年，乔布斯在斯坦福大学

“你的时间有限，所以不要浪费时间去过别人的生活。”

即使你不是一个果粉，你也应该听一听乔布斯20xx年在斯坦福大学上的演讲。

乔布斯调侃说这篇演讲是他离大学毕业最近的一次，他还分享了三个改变他生活的重要转折点——这些都可能成为其他人的指路明灯。他讲述了他是如何决定从大学辍学，这段经历又是如何激发了他的求知欲，并且最终如何成为他将苹果电脑推向市场的一大助力。

接下来，乔布斯讲到他被他自己一手建立的苹果公司所抛弃，那时他曾痛苦过，也曾尴尬过，但是这次的离开却让乔布斯因祸得福，他之后建立了NeXT公司，最终因其专利技术而被苹果公司收购。

乔布斯的演讲中最为出彩的是他被诊断出癌症之后的那部分故事。有一天，由于身患一种极为罕见的胰腺癌，他被告知他的生命只剩下三到六个月，他知道这个病最终只会夺去他的生命。然而之后的活检结果显示他的癌症虽然罕见，但是可以通过手术切除。(不幸的是，这个癌症会复发，乔布斯在20xx年不幸离世。)

“不要被教条所束缚，也不要盲目活在别人的思想里，不要让别人嘈杂的观念淹没了你自己内心的声音。最重要的是鼓起勇气，从心出发，相信自己的直觉，从某种程度来说，它们才能真正让你知道你想成为什么样的人。”

毕业典礼演讲稿英文 篇2

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3

尊敬的嘉宾、老师们、亲爱的同学们：

大家上午好!

在这喜庆的日子里，学校为20xx届毕业生举行隆重的毕业典礼，共话别离的眷恋。我向各位毕业生表示最热烈的祝贺，向为本届高三付出辛勤劳动的学校领导、所有家长、教职员工表示最诚挚的敬意!

三年前，大家从神农之巅、潜襄荆随、清江之畔奔赴东山之巅的菁菁校园——夷陵中学。从此开始了不平凡的高中之旅。夷陵中学永远记录下你们在教室里勤学苦读;在图书馆里凝思与遐想;在老师身边的簇拥探讨;在美丽校园领略自然奇观日全食;你们在所坐的田径场上曾挥洒激情与汗水;在这个主席台上展示你的自信与昂扬。朗诵，演讲与辩论，点燃舌尖智慧、令人荡气回肠;历史剧里，你们展眉挥手，衣袖飘飘，演尽千古风流;大合唱中，你们手捧烛火，轻歌浅唱，吟尽青春衷肠;元旦晚会，你们诵诗助兴，铿锵击节，说尽学子情怀;汶川地震，你们上街义卖，收购废品，为同胞倾囊;火炬传递，你们挥动红旗，助威呐喊，共庆奥林匹克圣火来到荆楚大地。

一次次，在活动中抛弃自卑;一次次，在奉献中明确使命;一次次，在合作中找到价值;一次次，在学习中厚积薄发。一次次明白青年的心中应当以天下为国，以国为家，心中有天下。

那些曾经穿梭于科技楼的奥赛学子已经保送至清华、科大、人大、浙大、武大、华科等名校，更多的同学在等待之中。我相信，努力的生命，必然会等到胜利的辉光!

同学们，我为你们的成长和进步而感到欣慰，为能和你们一起同行而感到自豪!

今天，只是你们高中阶段结束的一天，也是你们向新的征程进发的一天。在临别之际，作为师长，作为朋友，我期望：

希望同学们能够永远保持一颗进取之心，脚踏实地，追求卓越。求知若渴，虚心若愚，不断探求新知、追求真理，永葆思想的活力。

希望同学们能够时刻坚守一份责任之心，甘于奉献，勇于担当。有着“天行健，君子以自强不息”的品格，更有着“士不可不弘毅，任重而道远”的精神。

希望同学们能够持久拥有一颗豁达之心，热爱生活，宽容自信。以豁达的心态直面人生的高潮与低谷，以宽容的性情对待人生的失落与坎坷，始终自信地去成就有意义、有价值、有创造的未来。

同学们，夷陵中学是每一个夷陵人永远的精神家园!希望同学们常回来看看!老师会永远关注你们、支持你们、欢迎你们!

最后，我衷心地祝愿同学们能唱响新时代的毕业歌，做好今日平凡之事，成就未来中华栋梁之材!