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Graduation Quotes
Graduation Quotes Index
About Education
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." "The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education." "The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!" "Education is the best provision for old age." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes About Graduation"Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference." "The tassel's worth the hassle!" Return to Index of Graduation Quotes After Graduation"Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars." "All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder." "People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices." "The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out." "School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Approaching the Future"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Commencement"There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Good Advice"My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them!" "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." "Put your future in good hands - your own." "You have brains in your head. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." "Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." "We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes "There is just one life for each of us: our own." "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." "Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money." "My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Graduation Blessing"I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Graduation Irony"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Humorous"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." "Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money." "At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros." "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." "Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated." "I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back." "The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Insightful"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught." "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." "The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Inspirational"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse." "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world." "The future lies before you "Hitch your wagon to a star." "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." "Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams." "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." "What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Never Stop Learning"Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues." "The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after." "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!" "You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it." "The important thing is not to stop questioning." "The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Parents of Graduates"Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes Profound"During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy." "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Return to Index of Graduation Quotes
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The Dash
It's not the date you were born, or the date you died, that really matters. It's "the dash" between those years and what you do with it, to make a difference with your life.
