Quotes About Graduation

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

Auliq Ice

#2. Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#3. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

#4. Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

Gary Cohn

#5. My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Oliver E. Williamson

#6. When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

Katie Couric

#7. At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#8. Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Alexis Herman

#9. Do not follow where the path may lead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Peter Dinklage

#11. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

Ed O'Neill

#12. Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Tim Minchin

#13. These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Bill Vaughan

#14. Success is the end product.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Dick Costolo

#16. And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".

Sherman Alexie

#18. People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

Janelle Monae

#19. For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#20. When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

Sheryl Sandberg

#21. I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

#22. Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

#23. 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

#24. The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Carly Fiorina

#25. 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

#26. I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol P. Christ

#27. I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Jim Clyburn

#28. You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

Charlie Munger

#29. It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

Ira Glass

#30. 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

#31. Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

Charles R. Swindoll

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

Auliq Ice

#33. Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

#34. I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

#35. It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

James D'arcy

#36. CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

Regina Brett

#38. Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Bradley Whitford

#39. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

John Green

#40. The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

James Farley

#41. I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Frederick Reines

#42. But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

Nikolai Gogol

#43. From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Dick Cheney

#44. Happy Graduation," he said.
"Now go get her.

Jennifer E. Smith

#45. There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."

John Green

#46. 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

#47. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Gil Scott-Heron

#48. All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

Patina Miller

#49. One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan

#50. Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

Isaac Slade

#51. I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Fred Allen

#52. 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

#53. Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it ... Err in the direction of kindness.

George Saunders

#54. 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

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

Auliq Ice

#56. They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.

Muhammad Yunus

#57. High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Ben Bernanke

#58. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.

Robert Orben

#59. I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

Warren Buffett

#60. Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Robert Breault

#61. I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Mark Kennedy

#62. Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push-up bras.

Dolly Parton

#63. According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

George Saunders

#64. For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#65. The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

Shannon L. Alder

#66. When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

Bill Cosby

#67. Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation."
"These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.

C.K. Walker

#68. GUYS, Owen Meany said. That spring, less than a month before Gravesend Academy's graduation exercises, the TV showed us a map of Thailand; five thousand U.S. Marines and fifty jet fighters were being

John Irving

#69. 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 A. Freund

#70. In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

Omid Kordestani

#71. When are you getting married?'
'After graduation, stupid.

Paul Zindel

#72. Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Maria Shriver

#73. I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Tim Duncan

#74. Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

Cory Booker

#75. It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Susan Sontag

#76. It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

Brian Sandoval

#77. I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume!

Bill Gates

#78. I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

Lisa Fernandez

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

Jane Lynch

#80. Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

Josie Bissett

#81. Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

Peter Farrelly

#82. If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

Renee Olstead

#83. I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

John Kiriakou

#84. I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Dana Snyder

#85. I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Will McDonough

#86. Every in group distinguishes itself from the outgroup by some process of "going through the mill" or enduring sufferings which are subsequently worn as the proud badge of graduation

Alan W. Watts

#87. You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

Barack Obama

#88. One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Jerry Moran

#89. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Maya Angelou

#90. At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Laurie Anderson

#91. Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

Eric Idle

#92. I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

Christie Laing

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

Geoffrey Wolff

#97. school graduation. I love him, even though the times - a lot of times I really needed it - he couldn't say, 'I'm here.

Nora Roberts

#98. The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

Harry Wong

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

Max Eastman

#100. Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

Charles R. Swindoll