Graduation Quotes

Welcome to my graduation quotes page. I remember when I graduated from university it was one of the best days of my life. You feel like it is the beginning of your life. Yet everyday I believe is a graduation. Everyday when you get through an obstacle and you push through and achieve is a graduation.



The following graduation sayings are not just for academic reasons. They are for you, to inspire you each day to soldier on. To go forward to a better life. Enjoy

• GRADUATION QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?"Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello. "I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
  Joann C. Jones


• 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.
  Arie Pencovici


• There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
  Orrin Hatch


• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
  Benjamin Franklin


• Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
  Louisa May Alcott


• The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
  Newton D. Baker


• The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


• 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 to success.
  Robert Orben


• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  Mark Twain-unconfirmed


• 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.
  John Updike


• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
  Susan B. Anthony


• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
  B.F. Skinner


• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
  Theodore Roosevelt


• 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.
  Tom Brokaw


• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
  Nelson Mandela

I love these graduation quotes. They make me feel like anything is possible. I hope you found the same inspiration from these graduation quotes as I did.

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