Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
-Robert Goheen

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
-Vince Lombardi

The tassel's worth the hassle!
-Newton D. Baker

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
-Art Linkletter

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

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

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
-Euripides

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-Francis Bacon

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

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

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.
-Newton D. Baker

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

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
-Anthony J. D'Angelo

I learned law so well, the day i graduated i sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
-Fred Allen

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

Education is the best provision for old age.
-Aristotle

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
-Eleanor Powell

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

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
-Henry Ford

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
-Andy McIntyre

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-Roger Babson

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

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

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.
-Gary Bolding

Hitch your wagon to a star.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
-Ralph Marston

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
-Adlai Stevenson

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
-Newton D. Baker

The truth is, i was afraid the day i walked into Stanford. And i was afraid the day I walked out.
-Carly Fiorina

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.
-John Updike

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
-Newton D. Baker

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises.' Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
-Orrin Hatch

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

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
-Russell Green

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
-Ralph W. Sockman

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
-A.A. Milne

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

Put your future in good hands - your own.
-Newton D. Baker

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

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
-Newton D. Baker

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

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

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

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.
-A. Lawrence Lowell

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
-Newton D. Baker

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.
-Arie Pencovici

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
-Beverly Sills

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
-William Lyon Phelps

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
-Henry Ford

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

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
-Bishop Mandell Creighton

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

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

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