Graduation Quotes, Graduation Sayings, Graduation SMS in commencement ceremonies
Popular Graduation Quotes and Speech from Famous People on Graduation Day
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
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“School’s out, Memories past, Don’t ever doubt, Our friendship will last.”
Unknown
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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.”
Anatole France
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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
Shakespeare
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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon
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“The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.”
Fred Dehner
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“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.”
Newton D. Baker
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“Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.”
Author Unknown
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“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“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
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“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
Ralph W. Sockman
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“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.”
Mark Twain
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“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
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“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
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“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“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
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“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
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“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
W.H. Auden
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“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
Edward Koch
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“When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.”
Adlai Stevenson, former Vice-President of the U.S.
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“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
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“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
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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“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
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Confucius
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“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland
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“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
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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
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“There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the
end; it’s the beginning.”
Orrin Hatch
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“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
Edward Koch
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“All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.”
Author Unknown
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“It 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
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“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
Wendy Wasserstein
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“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
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“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
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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
Harold Geneen
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“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ”
Newton D. Baker
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“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ”
Louisa May Alcott
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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
B.F. Skinner
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
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“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
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“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
Vince Lombardi
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“We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.”
Author Unknown
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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
Art Linkletter
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“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
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“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
Ralph Marston
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“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
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
e.e. cummings
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“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
Euripides
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“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.”
William Arthur Ward
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“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Edmund Hillary
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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
Sydney J. Harris
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“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”
Roger Babson
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“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Aristotle
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“Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.”
James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
Beverly Sills
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“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell
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“Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
Anonymous
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
Nelson Henderson
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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.”
Plato
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”
Joseph Addison
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”
Epictetus
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge, but
power.”
Charles W. Eliot
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“Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.”
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Earl of Beaconsfield
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“I have learned this at least by my experiment; 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
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“Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share’s the race’s mind and enfranchises his own soul.”
John H. Finley
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“Education is the best provision for old age.”
Aristotle
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“A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.”
A. Whitney Griswold
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“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts”
Millard Fuller
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“To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.”
George W. Bush
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“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
Proverb
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“Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
Lord Brougham
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“Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.”
J. Paul F. Richter
