Graduation Quotes

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Jack Kennedy

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

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

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

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

Russell Green

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

Fred Dehner

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Maya Angelou

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Ben Stein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph W. Sockman

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

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

Bishop Mandell Creighton

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

Aristotle

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

Nelson Henderson

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Orrin Hatch

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Euripides

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

Art Linkletter

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life's Little Instruction Book

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

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

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A.A. Milne

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

Albert Einstein

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

Yoda

In movie The Empire Strikes Back

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Eleanor Powell

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Adlai Stevenson

To college graduates

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The College Blue Book

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

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