Motivational Graduation Quotes:

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

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

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 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

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

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Graduation, Kids Inspirational

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

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

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

- Confucius

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

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

- Patch Adams

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

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

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

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

- Christopher Reeve

source: Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Positive, Inspiring, Graduation, Impossible Dream, Impossible Becomes Possible

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

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 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

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

- Wendy Wasserstein

topic: Graduation, Encouraging, Dream, Grad, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

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

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

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

- Dr. Seuss

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

- Mark Victor Hansen

topic: Hands, Your Future, Our Future, Inspiration And Motivation, Inspirational Goal Setting

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

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

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

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

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