Graduation Quotes

No graduation speech, or graduation invitations, are complete without some great quotes. These quotes contain some very wise words - just perfect for enhancing your speech and invitations so please find below a good selection of memorable quotes.

Some name dropping with famous quotes can be even more impressive (if the graduation quotes fit well with what you are saying of course).

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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.

Lots of jokes....

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Funny Stories

Relax and laugh at these funny stories. They will give you ideas and help you add a funny element to your speech.

Lots of great funny stories....

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Graduation Poems

Add in a selected poem to enhance your speech. The right poem can give a professional edge and really help make your point!

Great 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!

Inspirational Speeches....

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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 great graduation quotes. It all helps!

Free speeches to get you started....

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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 graduation quotes.

High School Speeches....

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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. Graduation quotes can help build a great speech.

College Speeches....

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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 graduation quotes.

Kindergarten Speeches....

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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 graduation quotes.

Student Speeches....

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Graduation Speech Topics

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

Great topics to get you started....

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Graduation Party Invitations

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

Graduation Party Invitations....

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Graduation quotes are separated into graduation, inspirational graduation quotes, success graduation quotes, dream graduation quotes and 'different' graduation quotes.

Graduation Quotes

The first section of graduation quotes are centred on graduation itself. There are great graduation quotes on the graduate!

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

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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.

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.

By Robert Orben

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The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.

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.

By Erma Bombeck

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It takes 10,000 hours of preparation to experience one moment of glory.

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

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

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.

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.

By Gary Bolding

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Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

By Arie Pencovici

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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

By W.H. Auden

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

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference

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.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge, but power.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue -- questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

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.

'Tis education forms the common mind,Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

I hope you liked these educational graduation quotes. The next section is inspirational graduation quotes.

Inspirational Graduation Quotes

Graduation quotes can inspire as well as celebrate graduation day. I hope these graduation quotes can inspire you!

"The person who you're with most in life is yourself and if you don't like yourself you're always with somebody you don't like."

By Marc S. Lewis

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"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.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary."

By Steve Jobs

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My own favourite of the inspirational graduation quotes:

"Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are!"

By Margaret Spellings

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"My favorite animal is the turtle.
The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
There are going to be times in your life when you're going to have to stick your neck out.
There will be challenges and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them!"

By Ruth Westheimers

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"You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed.
Doors will slam in your face.
You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again.
It's the only way to achieve your goals in life."

By Michael Uslan

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"Just keep trying!
Never give up, never, never give up!
Because the only person that can stop you is - you!"

By Yvonne Thorton

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It doesn't matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping."

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"Never give in to pessimism.
Don't know that you can't fly, and you will soar like an eagle.
Don't end up regretting what you did not do because you were too lazy or too frightened to soar.
Be a bumblebee! And soar to the heavens. You can do it."

"...believe that the sort of life you wish to live is,
at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up.
And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it,
and it, in turn, begins moving toward you."

"It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the color of the azaleas,
the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue,
the color of our kid's eyes,
the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of live."

By Anna Quindlen

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

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"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

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The best way to predict the future is to create it,
Enjoy creating yours.

Author unknown

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The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others.

Do not follow where the path may lead,
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best

"The greatest discovery of any generation
is that any human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude"

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving,
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice
At the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

There is no challenge too great for those who have the will and heart to make it happen.

Change is life giving. It helps us grow into something greater than we already are.

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Excellence is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skilful execution and the ability to see obstacles as opportunities.

Author unknown

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

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When you contend with challenges that test your strength, you move more surely towards the top.

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Courageous risks help you grow, allow you to face your fears, and make you better than you think you are.

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If you are not riding the wave of change.......you'll find yourself beneath it.

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Different people, different beliefs, different hopes, different dreams, we have become not just a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic.

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Diversity is the one thing we all have in common.... Celebrate it every day.

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A positive attitude is a powerful force.... it can't be stopped!

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Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly.....embrace the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilleration of victory.

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Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider the gifts you have been given, the difference you have made and the direction in which you are headed.

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With open hearts and minds, we become an inspiring light to which others are drawn. Shine brightly.

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It's the moments we enjoy not the possessions we've acquired that provide the deepest satisfaction.

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Each day offers the promise of new possibilities. Rise confidently and embrace them wholeheartedly. They hold great power.

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When you realise you have made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

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Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

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Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

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Live a good honourable life. Then when you get older you'll be able to look back and enjoy it a second time.

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Once a year, go some place you have never been before.

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Follow the 3 R's:
· Respect for self
· Respect for others and
· Responsibility for all your actions.

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Integrity comes when character is tested; keep true and never be afraid of doing what is right.

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun

My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…you’ll be a Man, my son!

If a man can build a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

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

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you don’t have failures, you aren’t doing. And if you aren’t doing you can’t have success.

We become uncompetitive by not being tolerant of mistakes, you can stumble only if you are moving.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Champion the right to be yourself, dare to be different and set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star.

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

And so often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and never even know we have the key.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

I hope you like these inspirational graduation quotes. The next section is graduation quotes about success, very fitting for the graduate.

Success Graduation Quotes

As well as quotes about graduation, graduation quotes on success can be very meaningful. This is a very successful time and hopefully that will continue long into the future. The right graduation quotes can convey that message.

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

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

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
When you take your mind off your goals.

"The spirit to win and the will to
Excel are always measured
One stroke at
A time".

"Unless you try to do something
Beyond what you have already mastered,
You will never grow."

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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More often than not, those who win believe they can.

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In the confrontation between the river and the rock the river always wins..... not through strength, but by perseverance.

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There is no challenge too great for those who have the will and the heart to make it happen.

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My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I believe great results come from careful planning. The ambitious goals are powered by initiatives and productivity. And the foundation of achievement lies in the will to be the best.

Author unknown

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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

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It is the size of ones will that determines success.

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The key to happiness is freedom and the key to freedom is courage.

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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.

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Winners must have two things: definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.

There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself!

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.

Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals over the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

You've got to think about the 'big things' while doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness, not to be a mere rushing on.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

I hope you like these success graduation quotes. The next section is about dream graduation quotes.

Dream Graduation Quotes

Graduation quotes can inspire people to dream of their new life. Dream graduation quotes have a great impact on graduation speeches and graduation invitations.

My favorite dream of the dream graduation quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams,
and endeavours to lead a life in which they have imagined,
they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow a vision of hope,
Look to this day as it is life!

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.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live life as you've always imagined.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

I hope you like these dream graduation quotes. The last section is different graduation quotes.

Different Graduation Quotes

Sometimes a speech, invitation or card just needs something a bit different. Different graduation quotes can give a great message.

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

A memory lasts forever.
Never does it die.
True friends stay together.
And never say goodbye.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away."

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.

Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other

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

The young graduate is discovering that among the necessaries of life, the most important is living

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

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.

From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do too, make sure they don't beat themselves.

If you want to play a game, go to where it’s played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game

My favorite of the different graduation quotes.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

You've got to stay patient, stay in the moment, keep grinding, ... You never know what can happen. And it turned out well

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

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

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and long life.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Precision of communication is more important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Asking the question "How would I like to be treated in this situation?" is an integrity guideline for any situation.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

I hope you like these different graduation quotes.

Your graduation speech and graduation invitations will be so much better with some graduation quotes in them. Graduation quotes are often thought provoking and can contain a really interesting and important message.

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Lastly graduation quotes do not need to be directly about graduation. Graduation quotes can be about education, success, inspiration, fun, or graduation quotes that just fit your graduates and speech or invitations.