Cool Graduation Quotes:

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

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

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

source: "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

topic: Funny, Graduation, Education, Master Ceremony, Grad

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

- B. F. Skinner

source: New Scientist 21 May 1964

topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

topic: Graduation, Education, Wall, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Graduation

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Motivation, 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

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Grad, Inspirational Graduation

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, About Success, Mediocre Minds

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

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

- Doug Larson

topic: Graduation, Graduates, Trouble, Grad, Cool Graduation

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

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Education, Memorable Graduation, Graduation Day

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: You Choose, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

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, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

- John Wooden

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

- Robert F. Goheen

source: 1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

- e. e. cummings

source: "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirations Being Yourself, Inspiring Graduation

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

source: "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

topic: Self Esteem, Firsts, Rate, Inspiration And Motivation, Grad

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

- W. H. Auden

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

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

- Russell Green

topic: Wealth, Achieve, Despise, Classical Education, Cool Graduation

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

- Ralph Washington Sockman

topic: Graduation, Islands, Wonder, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge Gained

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

- Patch Adams

topic: Graduation, Dream, Joy, Inspirational Graduation, Motivational Graduation

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspirations Being Yourself

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

- John Updike

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Hands, College Graduation, Cool 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

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

topic: Love, Life, Birthday, Inspirational Graduation, Milestone

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

- Euripides

topic: Life, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirations Being Yourself

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Graduation, Wise, Encouragement, Cool Graduation, Priorities In Life