Graduation Quotes

669 Graduation quotes by 480 unique authors

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with… — Taylor Mali
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at… — Harold E. Varmus
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife… — Harold E. Varmus
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane… — Dennis Washington
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. — Kevin Spacey
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. — Robert Anthony
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain
College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. — Ruby Wax
All real education is the architecture of the soul. — William Bennett
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. — Moira Kelly
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked… — James Green Somerville
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college. — Mark Kennedy
Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some… — Daniel Greenberg
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. — Jim Evans
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. — James Tobin
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. — Will McDonough
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… — Erma Bombeck
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. — Fred Shero
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of… — Abraham Lincoln
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing happens unless first a dream. — Carl Sandburg
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

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