“ A journey for a thousand miles shall always start a single step”

Confucius famous quotes.

You don’t have to be  great to start, but you have to start to become great. Graduating from college is a great achievement and a profound time of change and possibility.

Even now, you are graduating, many of you will be starting at those entry-level jobs that will be the beginning  of your careers, and some will start to have their own business, once again on the bottom rung of the ladder. But this time the opportunity exists for you to just keep climbing, like it is an endless ladder to heights you have never achieved before. And if it is that way, I urge you to make sure that you are on the ladder you truly want to be on. Remember that it is YOUR LIFE AND LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

Carl Jung said, “ Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” So, today I remind you all to look into your hearts and be awake before you agree to a dream that is not your own. Up to this point in many of your lives, most things have been decided for you. From now on, it is up to you to choose. I say make a choice when you are fully awake, a choice that is informed by your heart and not by what others say or think.

Your contribution to the world will not be measured by the money you make, or the accolades you receive but rather by the way in which you share your unique gifts with the world. And the only place to find those gifts is within yourself.

So go forth BSBA, OAD and ACCOUNTANCY batch 2011 and make your unique contribution!

Congratulations!