Graduation Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
Wendy Wasserstein

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

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
A. Lawrence Lowell

The young graduate is discovering that among the necessaries of life, the most important is living.
Anonymous

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.
A. Whitney Griswold

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Anonymous

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
W.H. Auden

All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Andy McIntyre

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn’t even give me one because I didn’t have my high school graduation.
Maureen Forrester

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

At the end of four years’ time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there’s your numbers.
Peter Jurasik

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.
George Foreman

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Behind every success is endeavor…Behind endeavor, ability…Behind ability, knowledge…Behind knowledge, a seeker.
Anonymous

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
W. E B. Du Bois