2022 Commencement

Maturity is the ability to handle frustration, control anger, and settle differences without violence or destruction.

Maturity is patience. It is the willingness to pass up the immediate pleasure or profit in favor of the long-term goal.

Maturity is perseverance: sweating out a project or a situation in spite of opposition and discouraging setbacks.

Maturity is the ability to display grace and poise when under pressure.

Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and disappointment without becoming bitter.

Maturity is the gift of remaining calm in the face of chaos.

Maturity is the ability to disagree without being disagreeable.

Maturity is humility. A mature person is able to say, “I was wrong.” He is also able to say, “I am sorry.” And when he is proven right, he does not have to say, “I told you so.”

Maturity is the ability to make a decision, to act on that decision, and to accept full responsibility for the outcome.

Maturity means dependability, integrity, keeping one’s word. The immature have excuses for everything. Their lives are a maze of broken promises, unfinished business, and former friends.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Eighty-five percent of your success is your personality.

“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.” – James Allen

1. Did is a word of achievement
2. Won’t is a word of retreat
3. Might is a word of bereavement
4. Can’t is a word of defeat
5. Ought is a word of duty
6. Try is a word each hour
7. Will is a word of beauty
8. Can is a word of power