Best 286 quotes in «graduation quotes» category

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. 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, then by all means, you should follow that.

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.

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

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

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

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

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

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

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 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.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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