Top 14 High School Commencement Quotes
#1. Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)
Teacher David McCullough
#2. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#4. In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#5. The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#6. It ain't life that left you no choice, its honor!
Ryk Brown
#7. Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#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. That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion
Kailin Gow
#11. Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.
Pema Chodron
#13. A boy with bad thoughts needs to be visiting a haunted house like he needs arsenic in his mouthwash.
Stephen King
