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Graduation Quotes
33 Graduation Quotes That Earned High Honors
- If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti - All you need is love.
The Beatles - That’s how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
Libba Bray - Do not dwell in the past, don’t dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha - Life moves pretty fast if you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller - Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius - Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean - All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney - The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli - May your hand always be busy, may your feet always be swift, May your heart always be sung and may you stay forever young.
Bob Dylan - We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau - Why wait any longer for the world to begin.
Bob Dylan - You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford - You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Benjamin Franklin - Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.
Albert Einstein
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Gandhi
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn
I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
Unknown
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Unknown
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Author unknown
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
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson
Cont.
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Louisa May Alcott
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Ghandi
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
Patch Adams
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course, We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.
Paul Hawken
Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match – If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Larry Luchino
Graduation Quotations for Son
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Bobby Kennedy
Do not pray for easier lives, pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
I’m an idealist: I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Everything has been figured out except how to live.
Sartre
Graduation Quotes 2021
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
“Closing Time” by Semisonic
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is you-er than you.
Dr. Seuss
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
Adlai Stevenson
If at first, you don’t succeed, do it as your mother told you.
Unknown
Congratulations Graduation Messages
For Daughter
The stars are beautiful because of a flower that cannot be seen.
The Little Prince
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
Princess Diaries
Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Unknown
The light that shines on you shows where you are, the light that shines in you shows where you will go.
Unknown
Live simply, love deeply.
Unknown
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.
Unknown
My Kid
Best to take the moment present as a present at the moment.
Unknown
We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, but over the years we’ll smile and recall, for just one moment…we had it all!
Unknown
The bravest thing you can do is be yourself.
Unknown
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished…that will be the beginning.
Unknown
For Sister
Moving on is simple. It’s what we leave behind that’s hard.
Unknown
Long ago, in a time that has faded from memory, a mother’s tears forged the bridge that, ever after, connected the power of the living every changing world to the human heart.
Unknown
The choices you don’t make are as important as the ones we do make.
Unknown
Use what talents you possess: the wood would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
It’s just life so keep dancing through.
Wicked
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
The Wonder Years
Yearbook
All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Andy McIntyre
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
George W. Bush
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Ella Fitzgerald
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
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For Brother
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
Oprah Winfrey
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.
Ellen Degeneres
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
Graduation Sayings for Invitations
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Gabrielle Coco Chanel
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
Ben Bernanke
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi – for more inspirational Vince Lombardi 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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e.e. cummings
Graduation Quote Ideas
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Newton D. Baker
The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Graduation Quotations
The tassel’s worth the hassle!
Author Unknown
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
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
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
JK Rowling – See more insights from J.K. Rowling.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best Graduation Words of Wisdom
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You may not always have a comfortable life, and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
Inspire
Take action. Every story you’ve ever connected with, every leader you’ve ever admired, every puny little thing that you’ve ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance, or you can be the active hero of your own life.
Bradley Withford
In life, you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.
Omid Kordestani
And now 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
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