Graduation Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Lord Brougham

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
R. Lee Ermey

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton

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

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
Isabel Waxman

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Jack Kennedy

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