Quotes and Sayings For Graduation Day

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

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown

The great value of formal education is that it is designed to foreshorten human experience. It endeavors with ease and economy to bring each succeeding generation up to date with respect to the past, and to make it at home in the world. In this sense, it prepares each generation for life.
Virgil M. Hancher

13 years to aquire friendships, but a lifetime to keep them.
Anonymous

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
Robertson Davies

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

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary

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

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
Paul Freund

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
Woody Allen