Famous Graduation Quotes

Why not drop a few famous graduation quotes into your graduation speeches and graduation invitations to really add the wow factor.

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Graduation Jokes

Great jokes to add to your speech. They may even relax you and help you deliver a strong speech.

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Funny Stories

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Graduation Poems

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Inspirational Speeches

Take a good look at these inspirational speeches. Learn from the messages, values and language. Be inspired to create your own masterpiece!

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Free Graduation Speeches

With some simple tips, Free Speeches gives you lots of speeches designed to give you a head start. Criticise, change, copy, indeed just do what you want with them. Some based on famous graduation quotes. It all helps!

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High School Graduation Speeches

You'll be able to hear that audience applause already as you write and deliver a great speech. Themes, tips and techniques covered for you. Also free speeches, some based on famous graduation quotes.

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College Graduation Speeches

Tips, advice and help on writing and delivering a great speech. You'll love it when the audience applaud! Free speeches too. Famous graduation quotes can help build a great speech.

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Kindergarten Graduation Speeches

There will not be a dry eye in the audience when you deliver an excellent, heartfelt kindergarten speech. Everything you need to write and deliver a fabulous speech. You may want to include famous graduation quotes.

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Student Graduation Speeches

A great chance for students to step forward to write and deliver a great graduation speech. Tips, techniques, themes and free speeches. Try using famous graduation quotes.

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Graduation Speech Topics

Lots of great topics and how to brainstorm the right one for you! Try famous graduation quotes for inspiration.

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Graduation Party Invitations

Graduation Invitations are fairly simple, name, date, venue and RSVP. Famous graduation quotes can give invitations the wow factor. Famous graduation quotes can help the recipient understand what graduation means to the graduate.

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The famous graduation quotes are split into sections covering famous graduation quotes, inspirational famous graduation quotes, and success famous graduation quotes.

Famous Graduation Quotes

Famous graduation quotes on graduation and education can make a great impact on graduation speeches or graduation invitations.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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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.

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

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught

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This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning

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The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Inspirational Famous Graduation Quotes

Famous graduation quotes on life can make a great impact on graduation speeches or graduation invitations.

I would rather be ashes than dust.
I would rather that flame burn out in a brilliant blue blaze
than it should be stilled by dry rot.
I'd rather be a superb meteor;
every atom of me in a magnificent glow
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."

By Jack London, American Author.

"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."

The credit belongs to the man:
who is actually in the arena,
who strives valiantly,
who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause,who at the best,
knows the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst,
If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.

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.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward

Parents can only give good advice or put their children on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

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

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.

by Walt Disney

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

One of the things my parents taught me is never to listen to other people’s expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about.

I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it in my head.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destines for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way- I hope it never will.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Let us recognize what unites us across borders and build on the strength of this blessed country. Let us embrace our history and our legacy.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path. And that will make all the difference.

It's a paradox, in a sense, because in order to have influence, you have to be influenced. That means you have to really understand.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I hope you like these famous graduation quotes. The next section of famous graduation quotes focus on success.

Success Quotes

Perhaps your graduation speech or graduation invitations are aimed at success. It is a very successful time after all. That success will hopefully continue for a long time to come.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
by Winston Churchill

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
by Winston Churchill

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
by Tony Robbins

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
by Tony Robbins

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
by Tony Robbins

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
by Will Smith

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
by Michael Jordan

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
by Michael Jordan

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
by Michael Jordan

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

by Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

by Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

by Thomas Jefferson

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

by Jack Welch

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

by Walter Cronkite

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

by Wayne Gretsky

You cannot demand to lead and then say that you are not responsible when things do not work out. You cannot accept only the rewards and duck the bad consequences of your actions.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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