Graduation Quotes
They've done it!! You can't believe it but they actually graduated! ;-p Therefore it's time to celebrate... How better than with a speech laden with some beautifully poignant words of encouragement... Or perhaps a card, with some funny graduation quotes properly warning the young lad or lass of what comes ahead? Whoever it is that is going on to this next step in their lives, will surely benefit from some of these words of wit and wisdom. Enjoy these graduation quotes!
Memorable Graduation Quotes"The tassel's worth the hassle!" (Anonymous)
"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."
"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future."
"Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course--because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you."
"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."
"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing."
"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after."
"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."
"Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that , you'll make a difference."
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it."
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."
“I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
"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."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught."
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder." If not, I hope you got a few things to write on that card! ;-p Return from Graduation quotes to Famous Quotes (Home Page)
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