Graduation Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Must See : Quotes for Graduation Day

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn; not knowledge, but power.
Charles W. Eliot

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Gloria Steinem

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don’t often do them.
Jerry Moran

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. Chesterton

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

There are all kinds of ways to forestall graduation. Taking a term off, getting suspended, not completing courses, all of these are valid.
Zonker Harris

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
Dr. Seuss

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things — the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
Samuel Johnson

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert Goheen

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma
on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.
James D’arcy

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
Jim Fox

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

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

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
Maya Angelou