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

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

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

Behind every success is endeavor…Behind endeavor, ability…Behind ability, knowledge…Behind knowledge, a seeker.

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

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

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

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
Maya Angelou

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

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

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 the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

School’s out, Memories past, Don’t ever doubt, Our friendship will last.

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

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

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

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

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

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

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

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Ben Stein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to the next.

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

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

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

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

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

13 years to aquire friendships, but a lifetime to keep them.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

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

Put your future in good hands – your own.

The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.

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

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

Graduating college in four years is like leaving a party at 10:30

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

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

The important thing is the educational experience itself � how to survive it.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold Geneen

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

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

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

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

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

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

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

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

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

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

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 can lead a boy to college, but you can�t make him think.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.
Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown

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

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

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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

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

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

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things � the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Samuel Johnson

As you become more clear about who you really are, you�ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey

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