Best 286 quotes in «graduation quotes» category

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

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.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

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

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.

Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?