Valedictorian Speech

To our honorable guest speaker, beloved principal, Mrs. Gloria Agoncillo, to our dear
teachers, faculty and staffs, our beloved parents, fellow graduates, friends, ladies and gentlemen,
good afternoon.
It has been a long six years, but here we are ready to graduate. And it makes me feel
delighted and sorrow. Delighted because I can see how happy we are now. After the seemingly
endless homework, quizzes, long tests and stress, we managed to survive without any casualties.
Seeing each of my batch mates faces somehow gives me a little flashback of many different
memories with each of you. We cried on each other’s shoulder and handkerchiefs and laughed
in some corny jokes of our classmates. And now, I can see you slowly tearing up which makes me
feel sad because later we must say our temporary goodbyes. We have grown up together as a
siblings and worked hard to get to this point. But we didn’t do it by ourselves. We owe a huge
debt of gratitude to the following people.
To our teachers, thank you for unselfishly sharing your time, talent and knowledge with
us and to be our second parent. Your long patience to us every time we weren’t paying attention
in what you were saying. Your effort to make lessons more interesting so we wouldn’t just tune
out. You helped us to develop our skills hidden. You demanded excellence from us whether we
wanted to give it or not. You set the bar high and challenged us to live up to it.
To our parents, thank you for supporting us in everything we want to do. Thank you for
paying our school fees, helping us in our homework and patiently listening to our complaints.
These are just few of the thousands of ways you’ve supported us on our journey.
To our Principal and all the office staffs, thank you for keeping things running smoothly
so our teachers could concentrate on us. We were better off for it.
To our guidance counselors, thank you for listening and trying to keep us on the right
track for graduation. Without your help, some of us might not be graduating today.
To my fellow graduates, we began high school as children, but we’re leaving here as
adults. We’ve been completed a basic education that will serve as the platform we use to launch
ourselves into our future. Some of us will go on college, others will go straight into the work
place, but each of us will travel our own path.
No matter where we go or what we do, there are challenges that we may encounter.
What I’m trying to say is we should meet those challenges straight on our head held high and our
heart wide open. We must try to excel in everything we do and do everything to achieve our
success. We may not have the power to inspire the entire world to strive for success but at least
we do have the power to try to achieve it to ourselves. My challenge to all of us is to do all that
we can do to reach our full potential to have a good future. The future is truly in our hands, so
let’s make the most of it. Thank you.