Graduation Card Quotes:

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

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

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

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

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

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

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

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

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

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

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

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

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

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

- Aristotle

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

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Positive, Dream, Law Of Attraction, Grad, Imagine That

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

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

- Eleanor Powell

topic: God, Inspirational Graduation, High School Graduation, Off To College, Motivational Graduation

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

- Benjamin Day

source: "Fictional character: Benjamin Braddock". "The Graduate", www.imdb.com. 1967.

topic: Appreciate, Want, Wells, Happy Anniversary, Wonderful 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

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

topic: Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational, Inaugural Speech, Child Of God

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

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

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

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

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: "12 Inspiring Graduation Speeches by Amazing Women" by Kelly Conniff, time.com. May 18, 2014.

topic: Woods, Path, Lost, Memorable Graduation, Inspiring Graduation

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

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

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

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

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

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

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

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

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 live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

- Wendy Wasserstein

topic: Graduation, Encouraging, Dream, Grad, Inspirational 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

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

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

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

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 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