Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tassel’s worth the hassle!
*Graduation Quotes*

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Put your future in good hands – your own.
*Graduation Quotes*

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown-Jr

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A.A. Milne

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Andy McIntyre

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
Adlai Stevenson

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon-1625

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
*Graduation Quotes*

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
W.H. Auden

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.
*Graduation Quotes*

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Louisa May Alcott

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Doug Larson

All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wendy Wasserstein

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
*Graduation Quotes*

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
*Graduation Quotes*

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
Fred Dehner

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Anatole France

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

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.
*Graduation Quotes*

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
Richard Halliburton

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
Orrin Hatch

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

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

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

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

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

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-1951*

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

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

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-1980*

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

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.
The Quotes Junction

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Newton D. Baker

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde-1890*

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Mark Twain

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

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert Goheen-23 “June”-1961

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony [J]. D’Angelo

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
Carly Fiorina

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

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

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings-1955*

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Gabrielle *Coco* Chanel

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
*Graduation Quotes*

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

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 one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton

Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.
Attribe To Both James Charlton & H. Jackson Brown

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

There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you – just reach deep into yourself!
*Graduation Quotes*

My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
Jim Fox

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss