Best 286 quotes in «graduation quotes» category

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

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.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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 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.

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.

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.