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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Here Are the Best Pieces of Advice From 2018 Commencement Speakers [Watch (HLS stream): Here Are the Best Pieces of Advice From 2018 Commencement Speakers](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Fap4Mhj6.m3u8) (3:42)  _Published 2018-06-05. Politicians, writers, athletes, celebrities and CEOs have all delivered words of wisdom to 2018 graduates in commencement speeches during the past few weeks_ --- Jul 28, 2023 12:04 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Commencement Advice for Your Career](/video/3lC4dOHc/) ### Commencement Advice for Your Career [Best Graduation Advice from Commencement Speeches](/video/YcMjDxtp/) ### Best Graduation Advice from Commencement Speeches [Best Graduation Advice from Commencement Speeches](/video/ILvXQw25/) ### Best Graduation Advice from Commencement Speeches --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] When you give your word, keep it. Show up. Do the work. Get your hands dirty, and then you'll begin to draw strength from the understanding. The true knowing that history is still being written. Courage as they say is contagious. We need young people with the courage to say this is our world now, and there are gonna be some changes. If you hope to change the world You must find your fearlessness. Duke graduates be fearless! Be the last people to accept things as they are and the first people to stand up and change them for the better. All of us have a responsibility [ MUSIC ] To be greater than the people who came before us. We have a responsibility to be not as good as them, or live up to their example, but to actually surpass them, even when it seems scary. In every generation, leaders emmerge because they one day awake to the realization. But it's not up to someone else to fix this problem or take up that cause, it's up to them. So now is the time for you to lead. Above all else, do. Not. Lie. Class of 2018, at no time has it felt as urgent as now that we must protect And value the truth. And remember that being a person with integrity is the most valuable asset you have, don't ever let anyone take it from you. No matter where you are in the world, integrity and good character are priced by every great faith and every great tradition. Integrity means managing our lives in a way that focuses on the ideals That unite us as people. Failure is not something to be ashamed of, it's something to be powered by. Failure is the highest octane fuel your life can run on. You gotta learn to make failure your fuel. We need to be ready to llose some fights, because we will. As John McCain recently reminded us, no just cause is futile, even if it's lost. What matters, what matters, is to keep going. No matter what, keep going. Listen more, speak up more, sometimes politics keeps us silent when we should speak. And if you find yourselves in a herd, Crane your neck, look back there, check out your brand, ask yourself if it really suits you. I can say from personal experience, it's never too late to leave the herd. You will face a moment in your career, where you have absolutely no idea what to do. And I hope in that moment. That you'll be generous with yourself. But trust that inner voice because if enough of you listen to that voice, if enough of you prove that this generation isn't going to make the same old mistakes an the one before, then doing the right thing won't seem as rare, or as hard, or as special. No pressure or anything. 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