Top graduation Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of graduation quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Graduation
Image of Tom Brokaw
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
Collection: Graduation
Image of Elbert Hubbard
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard
Collection: Graduation
Image of Robert Anthony
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
- Robert Anthony
Collection: Graduation
Image of Plato
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
- Plato
Collection: Graduation
Image of Elizabeth Blackwell
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
Collection: Graduation
Image of William Bennett
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
- William Bennett
Collection: Graduation
Image of John F. Kennedy
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Graduation
Image of James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison
Collection: Graduation
Image of Carol Burnett
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
- Carol Burnett
Collection: Graduation
Image of Erma Bombeck
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Graduation
Image of Jon Secada
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
- Jon Secada
Collection: Graduation
Image of Bernie Siegel
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 ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
- Bernie Siegel
Collection: Graduation
Image of Bobby Heenan
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
- Bobby Heenan
Collection: Graduation
Image of Henny Youngman
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
- Henny Youngman
Collection: Graduation
Image of Andy Samberg
You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.
- Andy Samberg
Collection: Graduation
Image of Bobby Scott
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
- Bobby Scott
Collection: Graduation
Image of Fred Allen
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
- Fred Allen
Collection: Graduation
Image of Al McGuire
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
- Al McGuire
Collection: Graduation
Image of Andrew Shue
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
- Andrew Shue
Collection: Graduation
Image of John Keegan
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
- John Keegan
Collection: Graduation
Image of Robert Orben
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
Collection: Graduation
Image of Marian Wright Edelman
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Collection: Graduation
Image of Ruth Ann Minner
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
- Ruth Ann Minner
Collection: Graduation
Image of Anne Lamott
I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Graduation
Image of T. S. Eliot
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
- T. S. Eliot
Collection: Graduation
Image of Alexa Von Tobel
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
- Alexa Von Tobel
Collection: Graduation
Image of Alan Dundes
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
- Alan Dundes
Collection: Graduation
Image of Marc Garneau
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
- Marc Garneau
Collection: Graduation
Image of Fiona Apple
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
- Fiona Apple
Collection: Graduation
Image of David Eddings
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
- David Eddings
Collection: Graduation
Image of Christina Aguilera
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
- Christina Aguilera
Collection: Graduation
Image of Alex Guarnaschelli
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
- Alex Guarnaschelli
Collection: Graduation
Image of Scott Hamilton
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
- Scott Hamilton
Collection: Graduation
Image of Tony Hillerman
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
- Tony Hillerman
Collection: Graduation
Image of Ray Bradbury
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: Graduation
Image of Peter Gallagher
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
- Peter Gallagher
Collection: Graduation
Image of Claire Danes
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
- Claire Danes
Collection: Graduation
Image of Irvine Welsh
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
- Irvine Welsh
Collection: Graduation
Image of Martha Reeves
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
- Martha Reeves
Collection: Graduation
Image of Daniel Greenberg
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 take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.
- Daniel Greenberg
Collection: Graduation
Image of Jim Clyburn
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
- Jim Clyburn
Collection: Graduation
Image of Neil Simon
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
- Neil Simon
Collection: Graduation
Image of Sloane Crosley
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
- Sloane Crosley
Collection: Graduation
Image of Garry Trudeau
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
Collection: Graduation
Image of Christine Gregoire
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
- Christine Gregoire
Collection: Graduation
Image of Conan O'Brien
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Graduation
Image of Ted Nelson
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
- Ted Nelson
Collection: Graduation
Image of Parker Stevenson
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
- Parker Stevenson
Collection: Graduation
Image of Clay Aiken
I did get a degree in special education.
- Clay Aiken
Collection: Graduation