Graduation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
-- A. A. Milne -
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
-- A. A. Milne -
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
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.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
-- Adam Savage -
There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
-- Adam Savage -
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
-- Al McGuire -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
-- Alan Alda -
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
-- Alan Dundes -
The most important thing is to not stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein -
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
-- Alexander Pope -
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
-- Alexis Herman -
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
-- Alice Walker -
Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.
-- Amy Poehler -
The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
-- Amy Poehler -
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
-- Andrew Shue -
We live by what we believe not but what we see.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
-- Anita Roddick -
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
-- Archimedes -
Don't buy society's definition of success. Because it's not working for anyone. It's not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It's only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness, and high blood pressure.
-- Arianna Huffington -
In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.
-- Arianna Huffington -
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 -
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner -
If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?
-- Bill Cosby -
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.
-- Biz Stone -
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
-- Bob Dylan -
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
-- Bob Newhart -
Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
-- Bobbi Brown -
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
-- Bobby Heenan -
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
-- Bobby Scott -
Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.
-- Bradley Whitford -
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
-- Bradley Whitford -
There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.
-- Brian Kenny -
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 -
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
-- Carol Burnett -
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
-- Carol P. Christ -
Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
-- Chris Matthews -
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
-- Christine Gregoire -
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
-- Christopher Reeve -
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-- Coco Chanel -
Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
-- Cory Booker -
First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.
-- Cory Booker -
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.
-- Dalai Lama -
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
-- Daniel J. Evans -
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
-- Daniel J. Evans -
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.
-- David Brooks -
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
-- David Brooks -
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
-- David Brooks -
The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.
-- David Brooks -
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
-- David Foster Wallace -
If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.
-- David Remnick -
I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
-- Denzel Washington -
Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
-- Denzel Washington -
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- Derek Bok -
Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don't need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does.
-- Dick Costolo -
Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.
-- Dick Costolo -
When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.
-- Dick Costolo -
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
-- Dick Costolo -
Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.
-- Dick Costolo -
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
-- Doug Larson -
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. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
-- Dr. Seuss -
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 -
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
-- Earl Nightingale -
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
-- Eartha Kitt -
Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
-- Ed Helms -
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
-- Ed Koch -
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary -
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.
-- Elias Zerhouni -
My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and-I hope-with some measure of success.
-- Elie Wiesel -
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
-- Ella Fitzgerald -
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
-- Emma Bonino -
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
-- Eric Idle -
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
-- Euripides -
You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!
-- Eva Longoria -
Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
-- Faith Hill
