Graduation Quotes

Graduation Quote of the day

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.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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

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.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Always do more than is required of you.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

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.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

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.

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.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

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

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

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.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.