If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.” — John Eidsmoe Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it… — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
I truly believe your associate's degree will help you get a better shitty job. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart. — Omid Kordestani Copy Share Image
You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried. — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.'… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs, many of… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Your future is bright. For all the times of late night studies, lack of sleep, sacrifice of enjoyment and parties, your reward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three… — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“Hey, one week, huh, Lex?" he said, tossing her a Cuff. "Here's your graduation gift." "Sweet." she slid it onto her wrist.… — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
“My mother freaked out because I quit college to do this. She's always saying you got to get your degree. I say… — Fred Stoller Copy Share Image
“Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power,… — FRESH IN THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY by M M Kirschbaum Copy Share Image
I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate. — David Berg Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
