This was probably the happiest day of my life. it was a celebration of the triumph of the will and determination of all. For this occasion / event I have my favorite Graduation Quotes and sayings, in pictures.
Great. We’ll definitely take a look. I have such happy memories of it from the old days.
(Pictures) Graduation Quotes & Sayings
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues. ~ Author Unknown
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. ~ Gary Bolding
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~ John Updike
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~ John Wooden
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ~ Tom Brokaw
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. ~ William Arthur Ward
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. ~ William Lyon Phelps
When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. ~ Adlai Stevenson – to college graduates
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~ A.A. Milne
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. – Life’s Little Instruction Book
There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~ Euripides
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. ~ Orrin Hatch
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~ Beverly Sills
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. ~ Carly Fiorina
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~ Doug Larson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tassel’s worth the hassle! ~ Author Unknown
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. ~ Author Unknown
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~ Henry Ford
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ~ Newton D. Baker
The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show. ~ Author Unknown
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. ~ Edward Koch
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. ~ Russell Green
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Put your future in good hands — your own. ~ Author Unknown
People will frighten you about a graduation…. They use words you don’t hear often: “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ~ Bill Cosby
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ~ A. Lawrence Lowell
My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Jim Fox
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~ Louisa May Alcott
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ~ Roger Babson
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~ Richard Halliburton
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~ Brooks Atkinson – Once Around the Sun, 1951
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e.e. cummings
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. ~ Isabel Waxman
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~ Harold Geneen
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~ Robert Goheen – Time, 23 June 1961
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~ Vince Lombardi
If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~ Author Unknown
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ~ Fred Allen
I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known. ~ Author Unknown
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~ Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference. ~ Arie Pencovici
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~ Erma Bombeck
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B.F. Skinner
Education is the best provision for old age. ~ Aristotle
Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade. ~ Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~ David Lloyd George
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~ Garry Trudeau
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 Freund
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~ Author Unknown
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~ Francis Bacon – Essays, 1625
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~ Henry Ford
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[I]t 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 – “My Speech to the Graduates,” Side Effects, 1980