Graduation Inspirational Quotes

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

John Updike

#2. The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts.

Auliq Ice

#4. It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

Roger Goodell

#5. Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. We live by what we believe not but what we see.

Angela Ahrendts

#7. What lies ahead of you is challenging but beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

David Brooks

#9. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.

David McCullough Jr.

#10. Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Aaron Sorkin

#11. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Michael Lewis

#12. You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself ... There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

Stephen Colbert

#13. You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human ... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative (no author does, I can tell you), you could nevertheless create it.

Toni Morrison

#14. Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

Howard Schultz

#16. Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Mary Lou Retton

#17. Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.

Auliq Ice

#18. Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

Adam Savage

#19. I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

Maria Shriver

#20. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

Jane Lynch

#21. Success is the end product.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

Tony Robbins

#23. From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

#24. With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.

Auliq Ice

#25. When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Neil Gaiman

#26. Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

Rachel Maddow

#27. I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Jamie Hyneman

#28. Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now.

Auliq Ice

#29. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

Auliq Ice

#30. You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

Jane Lynch

#31. Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.

Sharyn Alfonsi

#32. Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Max Eastman

#33. Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation ... 15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

Jack Dorsey

#34. How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

Jon Stewart

#35. Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.

Sharyn Alfonsi

#36. Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

Emily Henry

#37. And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

Stephen Colbert