Quotes about Graduation
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
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 old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.