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  • A fool is a wise man’s ladder.~ South African Proverb
  • As if it weren’t bad enough to fall, the ladder lands on top of you.~Malawian Proverb
  • Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.~ Yiddish Proverb
  • Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.~ Clare Boothe Luce
  • He who climbs a ladder, must have his brains in his feet.~ Polish Proverb
  • Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.~ Famous Quotes
  • If a woman hears that something unusual is going on in heaven, she would find a ladder to go and look.~ Armenian Proverb
  • If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.~ Donny Osmond
  • Life is a ladder — some will climb up it, others down.~ Bulgarian Proverb
  • Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.~ W. Clement Stone
  • Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.~ Stephen R. Covey
  • Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.~ Paul J. Meyer
  • One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you — suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, “Well, I’ll have a go, too.”~ Margaret Thatcher
  • On the ladder to success there is always somebody on the rung above you and who uses your head to steady himself.~ Icelandic Proverb
  • Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don’t even know there is a ladder.~ Robert H. Schuller
  • The flatterer makes you climb up a tree then takes the ladder away.~ Chinese Proverb
  • The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness.~ Paul Twitchell
  • The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we’re sliding down.~ Mark Twain
  • The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.~ Ayn Rand
  • The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.~ Napoleon Hill
  • There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.~ Andrew Carnegie
  • The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.~ Famous Quotes
  • The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down.~ American Proverb
  • When on the ladder of success, don’t step back to admire your work.~ Famous Quotes
  • Who cannot yet walk, cannot climb a ladder.~ Ethiopian Proverb
  • You can’t push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.~ Andrew Carnegie
  • You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.~ Zig Ziglar

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  • 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
  • I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.  ~ Graduation Quotes
  • 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
  • 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.
    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



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