Graduation Day Quotes:

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

- Horace Kephart

source: Horace Kephart (1906). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness”

topic: School, Woods, Graduation Day

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

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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

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

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

source: "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Two, Discovering Yourself, Innovation And Business

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

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

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

- Oprah Winfrey

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

source: Jawaharlal Nehru (1960). “India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses”

topic: Graduation, Time, Years, Graduation Day, Convocation

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Dream, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Sweet, Inspirational Education, Memorable Graduation

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Self Determination, Live For Yourself

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

- James Truslow Adams

source: "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational High School Graduation, Graduation Day

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

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

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Max Eastman

topic: Revenge, Opportunity, Doors, Live For Yourself, Marketing And Sales

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

- Dr. Seuss

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

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

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Confidence, Business, Answers, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Grad, Imagine That

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

- Robert Jones Burdette

source: "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

topic: Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life, Going To College, Life Going On

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Going To College, Inspire Students

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Thinking, Perspective, Vampire, Hummus, Slayer

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

- Norman Cousins

source: Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Graduation Day, University Degrees

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

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Graduation, Space, Offering, Inspirational Graduation, Memorable 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

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Motivation, Steps, Steps Forward, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

- Mark Twain

source: "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

topic: Graduation, Funny Life, Attitude, Going To College, Life Going On

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Man Of My Dreams, Future Success

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

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

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

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