Commencement Quotes

48 Commencement quotes by 45 unique authors

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an… — Bernie Siegel
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for… — John F. Kennedy
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New… — Charles Sturt
Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. — Greg Gutfeld
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation… — Robert James Graves
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… — Robert Southey
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. — Sydney J. Harris
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… — Robert Orben
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be… — Paul Tsongas
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did… — Jane Austen
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning. — Philippa Gregory
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that… — Vincent Price
If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can… — Joss Whedon
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
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. — Unknown Author
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
The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. — Gautam Adani
Early morning is the most privileged time as it oversees the commencement as well as end of the day. — Tasneem Hameed
A Birthday is actually the commencement of another one of the predetermined journeys, individually set to cover a span of 365 days, belonged to the… — Melchor Lim
MARRIAGE, The dawn of romance and the commencement of history; — Nikhil Saluja

Who Wrote These Commencement Quotes

45 authors contributed a total of 48 Commencement Quotes, led by these top contributors: