Graduation Quotes

"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 Freund

"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

"Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck."
Peter Farrelly

"You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer."
Tony Snow

"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

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

"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.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go."
Dr. Seuss

"The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show."
Author Unknown

"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

"I have learned this at least by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream,
and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau

"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

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success
"To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty,
To find the best in others,
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded."
A great quote for the new graduate from Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

" As you go through your week, month, and even New Year, recognize the people who have packed your parachute and enabled you to get where you are today!" Author Unknown, from Who Packed Your Parachute?

"Find opportunities in change,especially in today's world where change is moving at a fast pace, don't let change overwhelm you, let change help you find opportunities you may have never seen!" Catherine Pulsifer, a graduation quote from Dreams

"Today is the day I will change my mind, and leave all the negative things behind." Semetra C. Vanison, a quote from Today Is The Day (written for fifth grade students to recite at their graduation.)

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving

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

"Hitch your wagon to a star."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder." Author Unknown

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Les Brown

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

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." Judy Garland

"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!" Louisa May Alcott

"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after."
Newton D. Baker

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

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

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
A quote for the new graduate from Albert Einstein

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson

"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." William Arthur Ward

"Look at education as a continuous life long journey." Catherine Pulsifer

"Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues." Author Unknown"

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."Arnold H. Glasow

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." Sydney Harris

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."Fred Dehner

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."Confucius

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." Malcolm X

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate." Doug Larson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do or do not. There is no try."Yoda

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Edmund Hillary

"Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues." Author Unknown"

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."Fred Dehner

We hope you have enjoyed our graduation quotes. We will add more quotes on a regular basis.

Success It is not the position you stand, but the direction in which your look