Graduating High School Seniors Quotes:

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 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

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

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

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

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation, Live For Yourself, Soft Heart

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

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

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

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 A. Freund

topic: Graduation, Squares, Mind, High School Graduation, Sombreros

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

- Nora Ephron

source: FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 24, 2016

topic: Graduation, Education, Inspire, Looking Ahead, College 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

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Graduation, Ideas, Next, Memorable Graduation, Life After High School

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

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

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

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