College Graduates Quotes:

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Knowing, Taught, Grad, Off To College

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

- Bill Cosby

topic: Graduation, Mean, People, Inspirational Graduation, Commencement

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

source: "Peace, war, economy dominate graduation speeches" by Patricia McCormack, www.upi.com. May 29, 1982.

topic: Graduation, College, World, Grad, Inspirational High School Graduation

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake, Inspirational Graduation, Inspire Students

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

- George W. Bush

source: "Bad results?" by Nikki Sheehan, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2001.

topic: Funny, Graduation, Humor, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational School

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

- Ruth Westheimer

source: "‘Other People’s Rejection Letters’: 8 Of The Craziest Rejection Letters" by Bill Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

topic: Moving, Animal, Order, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspiring Graduation

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Failure In Life, Inspirational Harry Potter

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

- Bill Cosby

topic: Graduation, Dream, College, College Graduates

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.

- Woody Allen

topic: Life, Graduation, Home, Inspiring Graduation, Seize The Opportunity

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspiring Sales

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

- Fred Allen

topic: Graduation, Education, Laughter, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

- Orrin Hatch

topic: Graduation, Exercise, Reason, Memorable Graduation, High School Graduation

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

- Ed Koch

topic: Success, Graduation, Education, Memorable Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

- Newton D. Baker

topic: Graduation, Men, Today, Memorable Graduation, Graduation Day

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

- Richard Halliburton

topic: Graduation, Adrift, Months, Inspirational Graduation, Memorable Graduation

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

topic: Graduation, Education, School, Going To College, Grad

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

- Margaret Heffernan

source: "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

topic: Graduation, Senior, College, Memorable Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

source: "Dexter: Popping Cherry". TV series, 2006.

topic: Graduation, Senior, College, Inspirational Graduation, Memorable Graduation

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

topic: Graduation, Education, Teaching, Inspirational High School Graduation, Homeschooling

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

- J. Cole

topic: Jobs, Tired, College, Part Time Jobs, Why Now

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

- Michael Dell

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, College Graduates, College Success

I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .

- Eddie Vedder

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Flower, Mean, College, College Graduates

Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we're relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to - it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we're seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven't been educated about it or exposed to it. They don't know enough about it to identify with it.

- Julie Zeilinger

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: College, Men, Thinking, College Graduates

And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find extraordinary. Take Princeton, for example - it has more money on a per capita basis than any educational institution in the history of educational institutions. There is no scenario where it can spend all the money its endowment generates every year. If there is anyone who gives a single dollar to Princeton, they have completely lost their mind. I will say that without reservation.

- Malcolm Gladwell

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Educational, College, Giving, College Graduates

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

- Grant Morrison

topic: Father, Believe, College, College Graduates

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

- Lolo Jones

source: "Did Lolo Jones Offer Up Too Much Information?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2012.

topic: College, Training, Before Marriage, College Graduates, Training For The Olympics

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: School, College, Numbers, College Graduates

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

- Brian J. White

topic: Sports, Football, College, Lacrosse, Professional Sports

America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we're going to be, unless we reverse that we're going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Country, Math, Successful, College Graduates

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who is a Negro, a Jew, a Mexican, and a college graduate, while Goldwater got the votes of every millionaire. Which certainly makes California the land of opportunity.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

topic: Opportunity, College, Land, Land Of Opportunity, College Graduates

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

- Emanuel Cleaver

source: "Dem Congressman: Obama's Budget A 'Nervous Breakdown On Paper'". Real Clear Politics Video, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2012.

topic: Jobs, Real, Technology, College Graduates, Community College

I was terrified of graduating college and not knowing what I was going to do. I saw the auditions for Idol and thought, Why not? I always liked to sing. You know when they asked, "Are you the next American Idol?" I said yes, but I didn't mean it.

- Carrie Underwood

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Mean, College, Idols, College Graduates

In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

source: Source: www.rfa.org

topic: Country, Believe, Mean, Burma, College Graduates

People don't understand: I've always been busy. They think that, "Oh, he's too busy, blah blah blah...," but for me, this is how it's always been. I took 18 credits every semester of college, graduated in three years, took graduate school courses, played football and baseball my whole college career. I've never stopped, and that's where that phrase "No Time 2 Sleep" is always true. I get motivated by success, by winning, by being around great people.

- Russell Wilson

source: Source: bleacherreport.com

topic: Baseball, Football, School, Semester, College Graduates

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.

- Robert Greene

source: Source: dilanka.cc

topic: New York, Book, Writing, Learning Language, Love Literature

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

- Peter Thiel

source: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.56, Crown Business

topic: Wall, Real, School, College Graduates

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

- Nora Ephron

source: "Nora on Hollywood: In Her Own Words", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

topic: Summer, Writing, Kids, Coming Of Age, Summer Camp