50 Quotes For Graduation – Let’s Celebrate!
Looking for the best quotes for graduation? These 50 epic graduation quotes will help you celebrate this amazing occasion.
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The following quotes for graduation will instantly warm your heart.
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Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest quotes for graduation.
So without further ado, here are the 50 graduation quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
QUOTES FOR GRADUATION
1 – Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
2 – Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible … Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don’t know about. Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.’ Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s been broken. Amy Poehler
3 – Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Neil Gaiman
4 – Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
5 – Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’ Cory Booker
6 – The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. Edward Koch
7- Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr.
8 – Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are. And then figure out what is the next right move. And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go. Oprah
9 – Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. Senator Orrin Hatch
10 – When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. Adlai E. Stevenson
QUOTES FOR GRADUATION
11 – Go make your big beautiful dent, and as you do so come down on the side of boldness. If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough. You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self. Sue Monk Kidd
12 – The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules. Neil Gaiman
13 – You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Steve Jobs
14 – It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default. J.K. Rowling
15 – Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that. Ellen DeGeneres
16 – You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you. Sonia Sotomayor
17- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau
18 – Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. Nora Ephron
19 – Be the hardest working person you know. Because if you’re not, someone else will be. Ian Brennan
20 – Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. Jackson Browne
QUOTES FOR GRADUATION
21 – You don’t go to university so you can punch a clock. You go to university so you can be in a position to make a difference. Janet Napolitano
22 – Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential. Kerry Washington
23 – The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer
24 – As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
25 – To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States. George W. Bush
26 – Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses
27- If I must give any of you advice it would be to say yes. Say yes, and create your own destiny. Maya Rudolph
28 – If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
29 – If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. Ben Hogan
30 – You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don’t know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go. Oprah
QUOTES FOR GRADUATION
31 – My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges, and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them. Ruth Westheimer
32 – There may be days when you’ll say to yourself, ‘I can’t. I literally can’t even.’ But you can! You can even! Katie Couric
33 – Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self. Ed Helms
34 – Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. Anna Quindlen
35 – It is absolutely still possible to make a difference. Michelle Obama
36 – You and you alone are the only person who can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. Kerry Washington
37- Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah
38 – The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. Maya Angelou
39 – What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. Joseph Addison
40 – Follow your fear. Tina Fey
QUOTES FOR GRADUATION
41 – I am here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change. And that’s okay. Conan O’Brien
42 – It’s your turn to choose and define what success means to you. Now, others will try to define it for you, but yours is the only voice that matters. Octavia Spencer
43 – There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. Lewis
44 – It is time to chase every dream, accept every challenge, strive for greatness, honor every promise, and recommit to your community. Lebron James
45 – Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles Kettering
46 – Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
47- You don’t go to university so you can punch a clock. You go to university so you can be in a position to make a difference. Janet Napolitano
48 – There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become.
This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday like a photograph coming into focus. Jodie Foster
49 – In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. Kristian Kan
50 – If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people. Leonardo DiCaprio
BONUS: The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. B.B. King
BONUS: If you can walk away for days, weeks, or years at a time, it is not an ambition, it’s a wish. Wishes feel good and rarely come true. Ambition, on the other hand, fuels your day and refuses to be ignored. It challenges your sense of self and fulfills your sense of wonder. Stacey Adams
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Frances Vidakovic
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