Graduation Quotes

We’ve pulled together a number of graduation quotes that might be useful as you plan your graduate’s scrapbook, cards or prepare a speech to honor him. They are from several sources, each listed prior to the quotes.

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From Quote Garden

• There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. ~ Orrin Hatch
• The tassel’s worth the hassle! ~ Author Unknown
• Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~ Erma Bombeck
• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin
• 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. ~ Author Unknown
• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success. ~ Robert Orben

 

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From All Great Quotes

• All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney
• Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~ David Lloyd George
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade. ~ Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?”Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello. “I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~ Joann C. Jones
• I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I’ve done and who I’ve been. ~ C. Hoppe
• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~ Edmund Hillary
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein
• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~ Ralph W. Sockman
• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~ Henry Ford
• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ~ G.K. Chesterton
• There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~ Euripides
• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~ e.e. cummings
• Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~ Art Linkletter
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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From the Bible:

Topical Bible Verses and The New Living Translation

• ‘May the LORD bless you
  and protect you.
  May the LORD smile on you
  and be gracious to you.
  May the LORD show you his favor
  and give you his peace.’
  Numbers 6:24-26
• Commit everything you do to the LORD.
  Trust him, and he will help you.
  Psalm 37:5
• Your word is a lamp to guide my feet
  and a light for my path.
  Psalm 119:105
• This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
  Joshua 1:9
• Fear of the LORD is the foundation of wisdom.
  Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment.
  Proverbs 9:10
• “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope …”
  Jeremiah 29:11

 

We hope you find something in this list of graduation quotes that inspires you, challenges you and your graduate, or makes you laugh. The old ones are often the best.

 

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