A Collection Of Graduation Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

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

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

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
– Robert M. Hutchins

“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

“ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.”
– Robert Sternberg

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

“Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

“College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.”
– Ruby Wax

“Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.”
– Ruth Ann Minner

“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.”
– Sara Paretsky

“I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.”
– Scott Hamilton

“I was really desperate. I don’t know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn’t want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn’t mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.”
– Shannon Lucid

“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.”
– Simon Newcomb

“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 (1820-1906) American reformer

“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”
– T. S. Eliot

“In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.”
– Ted Nelson

“So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.”
– Ted Nelson

“I teach one semester a year, and this year I’m just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.”
– Tobias Wolff

“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 essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.”
– Tony Hillerman

“School’s out, Memories past, Don’t ever doubt, Our friendship will last.”
– Unknown

“All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.”
– Will Durant

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

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