Graduation Quotes
A collection of graduation quotes and sayings that are inspirational. You will find a collection of senior graduation quotes, and graduation sayings that can be shared with the new graduate. We hope they inspire and motivate the new graduate to be all that they can be."There is a good reason they call
these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'.
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning."
Orrin Hatch
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
Susan B. Anthony
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"The fireworks begin today.
Each diploma is a lighted match,
each one of you is a fuse."
Ed Koch
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
Edmund Hillary
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
Sydney Harris
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"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
Vince Lombardi
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
Wendy Wasserstein
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Mahummad Ali
"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
Confucius
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"
Louisa May Alcott
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"
Benjamin Franklin
"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."
Paul Freund
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
Gandhi
"I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
William Lyon Phelps
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after."
Newton D. Baker
"Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues."
Author Unknown
"Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars."
Richard Halliburton
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
Judy Garland
"The great value of formal education is that it is designed to foreshorten human experience. It endeavors with ease and economy to bring each succeeding generation up to date with respect to the past, and to make it at home in the world. In this sense, it prepares each generation for life."
Virgil M. Hancher
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
George Washington
"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."
Tom Brokaw