Sayings and Quotes

Here are some more graduation quotes for the young graduate out there..

Startig with this simple poem like quote:
“The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.”

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

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
~Tom Bodett This is adapted for the saying that says, Life is a Hard Teacher, it takes exams first and lessons afterwards.

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

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
~ Frank A. Clark

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

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

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

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Sparrowrose Howard Thurman

“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

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

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

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

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
~ Sarah Caldwell

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

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
~Paulo Coelho

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

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
~ Benjamin Franklin

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

“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
~ Michael Garrett Marino

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

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.”