Sayings | Quotes

“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

“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 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

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.”