Humorous Wedding Speech: The Pursue Of Honor In High School

Excellence is not a small and private gift to be kept guarded and out of sight. It is a gift that should spark and catch in the hearts and grow from mind to mind with each day, each year, each generation. Our excellence amplifies as we recognize other excellences. Tonight, We’re gathered here to celebrate the elite academic excellence of all of these hardworking students. I’ve had the honor of attending Honor’s Banquet all four years of high school, surrounded by some of the most academically inclined people I know. Today each of you will be recognized for the hard work, determination and dedication you exhibit daily inside the classroom. Each of you has every right to be proud of all you have learned and accomplished. That feeling of satisfaction is the real reward today and every day.

For years, I watched the best of the best give speeches and always strived to be one of those people giving one of those speeches. And now, here I am. To be considered an honor student is a great privilege, and comes with a lot of hard work. So I want to take a minute to tell you three little things that I hope you’ll use throughout your high school career and long after. One: you have to be persistent. This often means that you might have to be bad at something before you’re really good at it. The two go hand in hand, especially as learner. Learning new subjects, ideas, languages, people, history. You have to struggle through the difficult parts of learning all of these things in order to succeed greatly in them. But we don’t call it “being bad” when we making mistakes. We call it learning. We call it growing. Two: trust in your mentors. At a young age, they were our parents, and then as we grew up perhaps we reached outside of family to find leaders, as well. Keep finding those mentors, in school, in your work, or in your. They, too, hold the key to