Great Graduation Quotes

#1. The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#2. Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

James Tobin

#3. I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Charles Stross

#4. Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Jill Scott

#7. 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

#8. To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

Don Dodge

#10. Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

David Lee

#11. The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

Amy Poehler

#12. Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Robin Williams

#13. Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love ... the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Mother Teresa

#14. The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

#15. I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hamilton Jordan

#16. This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image - an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator: - thus did the world once seem to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. When you find your soulmate, the word relationship is redefined as Divine adventure.

Maximus Freeman

#18. And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too, ... perhaps better than we actually are.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.

Katie Nolan