"You may succeed. You may fail. But make it your life's work to remake the world," Tim Cook told Tulane University's graduating class in 2019.
Commencement speeches are often an opportunity for media moguls, celebrities, and CEOs to impart wisdom to the graduating classes of colleges and universities across the country.
Presidents have also used commencement speeches as more casual environments to drive home the values of their administrations, such as John F. Kennedy's 1963 speech at American University that called for peace.
Here are valuable pieces of advice from graduation speeches through history.
Richard Feloni and Rachel Gillett contributed to a previous version of this article.