Quotes About Diplomas

#1. What values do achievement, degrees, and diplomas have if you don't have wisdom and love?

Debasish Mridha

#2. They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. To my mind, They're mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant oafs with diplomas that are turned loose on the country every June.

J.D. Salinger

#3. All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

Magic Johnson

#4. Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Ruben Hinojosa

#5. Diplomas can't replace self-development.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

G. M. Trevelyan

#7. On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

Brennan Manning

#8. Diplomas are ill-purposed. What should be celebrated is not the culmination of twelve years sitting in a school desk; what an 18-year-old should be recognized for is making it through young adulthood without getting herself killed.

Kari Martindale

#9. I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

Maurice Allais

#10. The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

Rick Santorum

#11. At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.

Mother Teresa

#12. School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.

James Marcus Bach

#13. The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#14. At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

Mother Teresa

#15. There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

Ronnie Van Zant

#16. As the graduates were called to the stage to collect their diplomas, I shook every hand. Many stopped to give me a hug. One young woman even told me I was "the baddest bitch" (which, having checked with someone later, actually did turn out to be a compliment).

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

David Eddings

#18. I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

Justin Trudeau

#19. At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

Howard W. Hunter

#20. We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

Mother Teresa

#21. We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

Newt Gingrich

#22. Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.

Molly Guptill Manning

#23. God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Elbert Hubbard

#24. It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read.

Newt Gingrich

#25. Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall

Drake

#26. Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets.

Mark Epstein

#28. Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

Lights

#29. I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

Thom Yorke

#30. In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.

Yukio Mishima

#31. I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gene Tierney

#32. You know? Ain't it ironic how we live our entire lives without the luxury of time, only to spend an eternity in death.

Jason Medina

#33. Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Gilles Deleuze

#34. I want to be able to speak to as many people as I can in my life and share this with the world!

Ali Shahbazi

#35. It's where a thing can't be beautiful or perfect without an imperfection. Say,

Samantha Hunt

#36. In the light of the crappy little lamp, all I was looking at was a frizzy mop of blonde hair and a bare back with one big angry red patch on it, but Jesus fucking God she was beautiful, and if you don't understand that, I'm sorry for you.

John Barnes

#37. There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Irwin Shaw

#38. Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.

George R R Martin