Memorable Graduation Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

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

“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.”
– Sloane Crosley

“In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me—basic cable’s second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say “congratulations.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new…. Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition.”
– Steve Jobs

“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

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

“I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”
– T. S. Eliot

“Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor’s appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.”
– Ted Nelson

“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

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can.”
– Sarah Caldwell

“Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.”
– Tom Brokaw

“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 economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.”
– Tony Hillerman

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”
– Unknown

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
– Vince Lombardi

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

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

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
– Wendy Wasserstein

“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats

“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

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
– William Shakespeare

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
– William Shakespeare

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

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