Memorable Graduation Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“It is to Victoria College that I can attribute the fact that Bell Canada, Oxford University Press and McClelland and Stewart all failed to hire me in the summer of ‘63, on the grounds that I was a) overqualified and b) couldn’t type, thus producing in me that state of joblessness, angst and cosmic depression which everyone knows is indispensable for novelists and poets, although nobody has ever claimed the same for geologists, dentists or chartered accountants.”
– Margaret Atwood

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”
– Marianne Williamson

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.”
– Martha Reeves

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou

“Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room. In professional circles it’s called networking. In organizations it’s called team building. And in life it’s called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.”
– Michael Dell

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
– Napoleon Hill

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

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela

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

“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.”
– Nora Ephron

“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

“Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.”
– Patch Adams

“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

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“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.”
– Quoted In P.S. I Love You, Compiled By H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

“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

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.”
– 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

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

“Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.”
– 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

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

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