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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. — Robert Orben
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a
sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement
exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin
Hatch
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. — Gary Bolding
The tassel's worth the hassle!
— Author Unknown
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one
of you is a fuse.
— Edward Koch
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is
the ladder.
— Author Unknown
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. — Arie
Pencovici
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
When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
— Adlai Stevenson, to
college 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.
— Erma Bombeck
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
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education,
and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
— Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
— Benjamin
Franklin
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.
— Garry Trudeau
[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds
pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the
opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
— Woody Allen, "My
Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980
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.
— Bill Cosby
The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.
— Author Unknown
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still
continues.
— Author Unknown
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something
remarkable.
— Wendy Wasserstein
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. — Author Unknown
Hitch your wagon to a star. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
— Confucius
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
— Louisa May Alcott
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to
graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school
days. — Isabel Waxman
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and
experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
— Harold Geneen
Put your future in good hands - your own.
— Author Unknown
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is
no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is
uneducated the day after.
— Newton D. Baker
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
— Dr. Seuss
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten. — B.F. Skinner
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde,
"The Critic as Artist," 1890
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
— Les Brown
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but
the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Attributed to Mark Twain, unconfirmed
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that
you plant.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man
of value.
— Albert Einstein
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
— Author Unknown
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen
bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge
sort of accumulates. — A. Lawrence Lowell
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then
the university has failed you. — Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own
sunshine.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The truth is, I was afraid the
day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. — Carly Fiorina
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
— H. Jackson Brown,
Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with
enthusiasm. — Vince Lombardi
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won
the case, and got my tuition back. — Fred Allen
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. — John Updike
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
— Author
Unknown
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way
things turn out.
— Art Linkletter
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
— Ralph Marston
To be nobody but yourself in a
world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody
else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can
fight; and never stop fighting. — e.e. cummings, 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
It takes courage to grow up
and become who you really are. — e.e.
cummings
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to
be someone.
— Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
— Euripides
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't
matter and those who matter don't mind. — Dr. Seuss
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical
enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
— Author Unknown
A professor is someone who
talks in someone else's sleep. — W.H.
Auden
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to
despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. — Russell
Green
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
— Henry
Ford
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to
be their top priority.
— William Arthur Ward
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. — Henry Ford
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
— Ralph
Waldo Emerson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
— Edmund Hillary
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
— Albert Einstein
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never
graduate. — Doug Larson
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of
wonder.
— Ralph W. Sockman
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition
of continually asking questions. — Bishop Mandell Creighton
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
— Sydney J. Harris
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
— Andy McIntyre
To the uneducated, an A is
just three sticks. — A.A. Milne
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the
end of your own arm.
— Fred Dehner
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal.
— Henry Ford
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
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
— Milton Berle
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set
yourself on fire.
— Arnold H. Glasow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis
Bacon, Essays, 1625
Education is the best provision for old age.
— Aristotle
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn
the trade.
— Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown,
Jr.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
— Beverly Sills
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't
cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
— Eleanor Powell
There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already
within you - just reach deep into yourself! — The Quote Garden
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
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have
to work a day in your life." — Jim Fox
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who
will never be able to repay you. — John Wooden
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do
not expect to sit. — Nelson Henderson
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Quotations for Graduations