Best 286 quotes in «graduation quotes» category

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

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

How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.