Graduating Seniors Quotes:

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

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 opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

- Dr. Seuss

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

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Inspirational High School 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

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

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

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

topic: Graduation, Education, Teaching, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational 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

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

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

topic: Graduation, Senior, Education, Freshman, Off To College

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy ...

- Gillian Roberts

source: Gillian Roberts (2011). “Caught Dead in Philadelphia”, p.9, Untreed Reads

topic: Senior, Apathy, Crowds, Graduating Seniors