Graduation Quotes

I'll never graduate from collagen.

— Dolly Parton

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

Oh, the places you will go.

— Dr. Seuss

I always knew you'd barely graduate.

— Anonymous

You can't always get what you want.

— Mick Jagger

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

— Akio Morita

I didn't even go to graduation.

— Brendon Urie

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

— Gabrielle Giffords

“...Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap...”

— André Gide

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

— Eric Idle

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

— Isaac Slade

“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”

— Nina LaCour

Sorry you'll someday regret having too much or not enough fun in college.

— Anonymous

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

— Louis C. K

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

— Jimmy Buffett

“Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to…

— Anonymous

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not…

— Caroline Ghosn

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Maya Angelou

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

— Charles R. Swindoll

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

— Zig Ziglar

I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.

— Irene Cara

People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get…

— Steve Blank

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems…

— Frank Press

I got into journalism, actually, when I started my graduate program at Portland State and ended up becoming the multimedia editor of…

— Andy Ngo

I started finishing 'Nostalgic' while trying to graduate at the same time. I graduated from high school, got my diploma, and my…

— Denzel Curry

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an…

— Kara Walker

I just gratulated last week.Thanks God for everything he has done.Thanks God for letting my graduation be perfect.Thanks God for giving me…

— Anonymous

Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has…

— Hillary Clinton

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by…

— Bob Beckel

“Like us, many students had spent their years in college thinking they’d get that well-paying, planet-saving job, even if they’d heard horror…

— Ken Ilgunas

Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head.…

— Mark Cuban

Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to…

— Chris Hedges

“We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping…

— Marina Keegan

It annoys me when people act like you're worthless if you're not a college graduate. The reality is the most successful people…

— Brian Zilinek

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At…

— Joseph Addison

“In a now famous commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs urged the graduating class to “stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Never let…

— Sophia Amoruso