Graduation Quotes, Sayings about Graduating

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks – A.A. Milne.

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.

The important thing is not to stop questioning – Albert Einstein.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value – Albert Einstein.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! – Andy McIntyre.

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet – Aristotle.

Education is the best provision for old age – Aristotle.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out – Art Linkletter.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest – Benjamin Franklin.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten – B.F. Skinner.

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions – Bishop Mandell Creighton.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out – Carly Fiorina.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart – Confucius.

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.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate – Doug Larson.

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.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves – Edmund Hillary.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse – Edward Koch.

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God – Eleanor Powell.

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.

There is just one life for each of us: our own – Euripides.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back – Fred Allen.

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm – Fred Dehner.

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.

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.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later – Harold Geneen.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal – Henry Ford.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business – Henry Ford.

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.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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.

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 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.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you – John Wooden.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else – Judy Garland.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars – Les Brown.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! – Louisa May Alcott.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after – Newton D. Baker.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit – Nelson Henderson.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises”. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning – Orrin Hatch.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught – Oscar Wilde.

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.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude – Ralph Marston.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder – Ralph W. Sockman.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Hitch your wagon to a star – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars – Richard Halliburton.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you – Robert Goheen.

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.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final – Roger Babson.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving – Russell Green.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows – Sydney J. Harris.

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.

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.

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.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep – W.H. Auden.

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