Graduation Quotes

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

    "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.
  • If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  • One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

    "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.
  • It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

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

  • The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

  • 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.

    Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
  • I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  • You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

    "These Great Commencement Speeches Will Change How You Look at Success and Failure" by Matt Miller, www.esquire.com. May 5, 2017.
  • We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

    Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”
  • If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

    "Bloody Wonderful: Goodbye, Anita Roddick" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2007.
  • Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

    "17 Funniest Lines from Monty Python Star Eric Idle’s Commencement Speech" By Gillian Frew, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.
  • Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  • Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

    "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.
  • I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

    Maria Shriver Graduation Speech - Video & Transcript, gradspeeches.com. May 11, 2012.
  • Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

  • 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.

  • Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

  • Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

    Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.
  • When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

  • Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

    FaceBook post by Michael W. Smith from Oct 06, 2015
  • Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

    Silas House (2010). “Eli the Good”, p.96, Candlewick Press
  • Do not follow where the path may lead.

  • You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.
  • All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 20, 2014
  • Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
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