- 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
- All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.~ Walt Disney
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.~ Brian Tracy
- All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~ Graduation Quotes
- 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
- And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.~ Dr. Seuss
- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- Behind every success is endeavor…Behind endeavor, ability…Behind ability, knowledge…Behind knowledge, a seeker.~ Graduation Quotes
- 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
- 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
- Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~ Wendy Wasserstein
- Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Education is the best provision for old age. ~ Aristotle
- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.~ Nelson Mandela
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B.F. Skinner
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.~ Henry David Thoreau
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.~Wayne Dyer
- 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
- 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
- Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.~ Milton Berle
- If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.~ William Arthur Ward
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ~ Andy McIntyre
- In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold Geneen
- 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
- It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~ Brooks Atkinson
- Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton
- Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ~ Roger Babson
- Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~ Louisa May Alcott
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Jim Fox
- Nothing happens unless first a dream.~ Carl Sandburg
- Put your future in good hands – your own. ~ Graduation Quotes
- Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.~ Winston Churchill
- 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. ~ Edward Koch
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein
- The lover of a student does not always become the wife of a graduate.~ Mexican Proverb
- The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ~ Newton D. Baker
- The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~ Bishop Mandell Creighton
- 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
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.~ Aristotle
- The secret of success is constancy of purpose.~ Benjamin Disraeli
The tassel’s worth the hassle! ~ Graduation Quotes - The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~ Doug Larson
- 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
- Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~ Graduation Quotes
- 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 E. Stevenson
- 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 can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~ John Wooden
