Sayings and Quotes

Here are some graduation quotes and sayings that you could use if you ever get to advice some graduating people. They are at a point when they are highly motivated and as the saying goes ” Strike while the iron is hot”, you should give proper advice. These graduation sayings might just come in handy during those times.

But remember this graduation saying before giving any speech
“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 takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E. E. Cummings

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

“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

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

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
~Nelson Mandela on education, a great advice for graduates.

“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

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

Here is a famous graduation saying, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
~Aristotle

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
~A nice graduation saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson

” Put your future in good hands – your own. ”
~ An inspirational graduation quote by an Author Unknown

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

“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 professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
~W.H. Auden

“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

To add some humour to your graduation advice:
“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”
~Fred Allen

Some Husband Quotes and Husband Sayings,

“There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.” ~Oscar Wilde

“The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life” ~Oscar Wilde

My husband’s a director, so he understands what I do.
Sasha Alexander

“The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love.”

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi~

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
~ Betty Friedan

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ~Mark Twain

“When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir

“My husband said it was him or the cat… I miss him sometimes.” ~Unknown

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it’s absurd.
Jennifer Beals

“My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.”~Joyce Brothers

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx

Not that you would have to talk on some graduation ceremony often, but who knows? You just might, some day. Nevertheless, we can have many uses of graduation sayings and graduation quotes. When your brother or sister is graduating, or your friends, you don’t want to send the same quote to everyone. Or have you stopped sending those greeting cards altogether, with those cute graduation quotes on the occasion of their graduation?

Here are some of my favorite graduation quotes:

“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. ”

“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.”

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

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“Borrowing a word from Aristotle, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ”

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ”

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

“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.”

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.”

“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”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ”

“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.”

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

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!”

“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 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.”

And on business by ford, “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ”

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”