Take This Advice: The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given

by Sandra Bark (Editor)

"BE FREE, AND DANCE THROUGH LIFE. "
-- YOKO ONO

"MAKE THE WORLD BEFORE YOU A BETTER ONE BY GOING INTO IT WITH ALL BOLDNESS."
-- SEAMUS HEANEY

"REMEMBER ALWAYS TO SIT UP STRAIGHT."
-- MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT

Take This Advice delivers thirty of the most powerful and inspiring commencement speeches given in the past ten years. With grace and humor, this generation's favorite artists and thinkers address graduates to celebrate an incredible achievement, and to let them know that life after school is not the end of the world -- in fact, it's the beginning.

"THIS IS YOUR TIME. TAKE IT ON."
-- TOM BROKAW

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 5, 2005

About the author

Sandra Bark is a New York Times bestselling co-author who partners with icons and experts to write books that teach, share, and inspire. Her clients include Justin Timberlake, Cameron Diaz, Hannah Bronfman, Kat von D, and many more. She has written nine New York Times best sellers to date.

Reviews

[Kalina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the speeches stayed with me (e.g. Sting, Willy Lamb and Salman Rushdie). The rest were a bit too contextual of their time and not overly relevant for today, many were obviously targeted at an American high-class students audience, so did not really speak to me.

[Megan Holcomb · Rating 1 out of 5]

A graduation speech is a graduation speech, overall they weren't that amazing save for a few unique ones.