Graduation Quotes
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Graduation quotes are often used in graduation speeches. These quotes inspire and teach life lessons and are often passed down from generation to generation. Graduation quotes may be found in poetry or engraved, printed, or embossed on graduation gifts as well. Check out the following quotes that many high school students might hear at their graduation this year.
Well-known Writers' Graduation Quotes
Some of the most popular graduation quotes were first spoken by inspirational writers, such as Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Dr. Seuss. We've gathered a few favorites for you to read.
"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 unemployed." Erma Bombeck
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!" Louisa May Alcott
"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
"Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." e.e. cummings
"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." Attributed to Mark Twain
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss
"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep." W.H. Auden
Famous People Quotes
Famous politicians, movie stars, and news personalities are often quoted at various events. Many of their statements are used as graduation quotes in commencement ceremonies as well. Some of the most popular quotes include the following:
"There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning." Orrin Hatch, U. S. Senator
"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse." Edward Koch
"When you leave here, don't forget why you came." Adlai Stevenson, former Vice-President of the U.S.
"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
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle
"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
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin
"People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices." Bill Cosby
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." Confucius
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." Judy Garland
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Henry Ford
"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
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle
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